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The MASTER team have posted AT2024djo on the Transient Name Server as a previously unknown asteroid
https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024djo
Not quite sure why they posted it on TNSNot knowing that much about asteroids I was surprised that examples this bright still turn up or are they mistaken ? (They have a track record having posted a “discovery” of Neptune on TNS a few years back 🙂 )
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RobinThat is very odd. I haven’t been able to find why they think it is an asteroid. At mag 13 it is either huge (in which case it would have been discovered already) or very close (in which case it would have a large apparent motion unless it is heading straight for us). There is nothing matching it on the NEOCP (the brightest object there is 18.2. It is possibly AI gone mad but there is a long list of real people on the discovery report.
It will be interesting to see what this turns out to be. Possibly a subject for my next Christmas Sky Notes.
Meanwhile ZTF have “discovered” their second high proper motion star in the past 3 months
https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2023acmv
https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024dumRobin
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