Main Belt Asteroid  2015 PC62

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A small cluster of galaxies drew attention to me, and completely unexpectedly, I saw a little movement in it...

As I tried to recover the asteroid 2012 BD, I casually discovered the Main Belt Asteroid 2015 PC62
remotely from location Q62 iTelescope Observatory, Siding Spring, Australia with telescope T31

The asteroid passed the Earth during the discovery date on August, 9 2015 ~16:43 UT in 1.72 AU distance to Earth (=257,308,000 km = 159,884,000 miles)
The asteroid's Perihelion was on April,20.3 2015 in 2.369 AU distance to the Sun. Its period is 4.71 years.

Discovered from Q62 iTelescope Observatory, Siding Spring  on August,9 2015; 
first published as K15P62C in M.P.E.C. 2015-P55   Issued 2015 Aug.14  12:03 UT

Minor planet center's orbital elements and Ephemeris,   JPL Small body database   

2015 PC62 � by Bernhard Haeusler, 2015-08-09 B/W                                                                   stacked on stars and asteroid

18 x 3 min. exposure, 2015-08-09 UT 16:30 - UT 17:36, 0.50-m f/6.8 astrograph + CCD + focal reducer
mag 20.6, velocity: 0.36"/min in PA 349.6  

2015 PC62 � by Bernhard Haeusler, 2015-08-09  animation of the discovery

GIF animation 18 stacked 3 min.exp. = 54 minutes in reality; look at the movement of the small dot in the center of the circle from left to right

18 x 3 min. exposure, 2015-08-09 UT 16:30 - UT 17:36, 0.50-m f/6.8 astrograph + CCD + focal reducer
mag 20.6, velocity: 0.36"/min in PA 349.6  

       sky quality SQM on Sept.5

2015 PC62 � by Bernhard Haeusler, 2015-09-05  animation of the first observation from B82 Maidbronn

GIF animation 34 stacked 3 min.exp. = 110 minutes in reality; look at the movement of the small dot in the center of the circle from left to right

34 x 3 min. exposure, 2015-09-05 UT 01:52 - UT 03:42, 0.30-m f/6.15 SCT + CCD
mag 19.8, velocity: 0.47"/min in PA 285  

       sky quality SQM on Sept.15

2015 PC62 � by Bernhard Haeusler, 2015-09-15  animation of the third observation from B82 Maidbronn

GIF animation 24 stacked 3 min.exp. = 72 minutes in reality; look at the movement of the small dot in the center of the circle from left to right

24 x 3 min. exposure, 2015-09-15 UT 01:36 - UT 02:49, 0.30-m f/6.15 SCT + CCD
mag 19.8, velocity: 0.55"/min in PA 271  

JAVA orbit here: JPL Small body database

NEODyS Observations and Residuals of B82 Maidbronn

MPC observation computed with Astrometrica:

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Epoch 2015 Aug. 26.0 TT = JDT 2457260.5                 MPC
M  26.74029              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.20937069     Peri.   13.16505     +0.77565431     +0.60559074             T = 2457132.78257 JDT
a   2.8088301      Node   308.12222     -0.59762460     +0.61408129             q =     2.3690937
e   0.1565550      Incl.   13.06375     -0.20299072     +0.50612649
P   4.71           H   16.6           G   0.15
From 62 observations 2015 Aug. 9-Oct. 13.  E-assumed.
 No residual file available.

Last observed on 2015 Oct. 13. Ephemeris below based on elements from MPEC 2015-T96.

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