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Photographer:

Mike Olason

Location of Photo:

Denver, Colorado

Date/Time of photo:

17 December 2017, 0011UT

Equipment:

11" SCT f/6.4 and STF-8300M CCD Camera

Description:

In these images Asteroid 3200 Phaethon was magnitude 11.0 moving to the southwest across Earth's evening twilight at 0.64 degrees per hour and was about 6.41 million miles from Earth. These images were taken in Evening Twilight about 1 hour after Phaethon's close approach to Earth at 2300UT 2017/12/16.

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