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Asteroid TB145 captured with the Revolution Imager

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In the video above you can see the movement of asteroid TB145 that swung by earth very early in the morning on October 31st 2015. Various sources stated that you would need at least an 8"-10" telescope and nice skies to see this object moving, but the Revolution Imager put this event in the hands of those with much smaller, modest telescopes in the worst of skies. This video is roughly 10x faster than it was actually moving, but you can see it moving in the bottom left. 400 meters wide 310,000 miles away - travelling at a mere 78,000...

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