Greg Egan on Nostr: Flipping through my 1973 Norton’s Star Atlas, I saw the trajectory of the asteroid ...
Flipping through my 1973 Norton’s Star Atlas, I saw the trajectory of the asteroid Eros during its Jan/Feb 1975 opposition sketched in pencil.
I had completely forgotten that I observed this! It moved from 48°N to the celestial equator over 6 weeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/433_ErosPublished at
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