This animation shows a motion of a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) 1998 WT24. Animation was made using twenty 5-sec exposures taken on 2001 December 14 UT with 0.57-m f/5.2 reflector + CCD camera SBIG ST-8 of the Klet' Observatory.
The distance between Earth and this asteroid was 0.014 AU, i.e. 2 million kilometers.
The field of view is 16 to 10 arcminutes with north to the top and west to the right.
Observers J. Ticha, M. Tichy and P. Jelinek.

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