Comments on: Asteroid 1998 QE2 http://www.rru.com/2013/05/asteroid-1998-qe2/ Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:09:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: amsadmin http://www.rru.com/2013/05/asteroid-1998-qe2/#comment-141711 amsadmin Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:09:18 +0000 http://www.amsmeteors.org/?p=2981#comment-141711 Caleb,

You are correct. Asteroids are designated by the year and month they are discovered.

Robert Lunsford
American Meteor Society

]]> By: Caleb http://www.rru.com/2013/05/asteroid-1998-qe2/#comment-140324 Caleb Fri, 12 Jul 2013 03:26:34 +0000 http://www.amsmeteors.org/?p=2981#comment-140324 Didn’t the asteroid 1998 QE2 earn its designation because of when it first was tracked? It seems to me that I remember such a report during JCSBATGRU98-2 global deployment.

]]> By: Bill Watson http://www.rru.com/2013/05/asteroid-1998-qe2/#comment-120425 Bill Watson Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:50:40 +0000 http://www.amsmeteors.org/?p=2981#comment-120425 I found asteroid 1998 QE2 last night (June 3-4). It passed very close the the very bright star Yed Posterior in Ophiuchus (only about 5 arc minutes northwest). It appeared fainter than the predicted magnitude of 11.37. I estimated the brightness to be 11.6 magnitude.

]]> By: Huge asteroid 1998QE2 to zip by Earth, offer skywatchers, scientists a glimpse http://www.rru.com/2013/05/asteroid-1998-qe2/#comment-118600 Huge asteroid 1998QE2 to zip by Earth, offer skywatchers, scientists a glimpse Fri, 31 May 2013 17:18:06 +0000 http://www.amsmeteors.org/?p=2981#comment-118600 [...] is not an homage to England’s Queen Elizabeth II,” says the American Meteor Society. “Newfound asteroids are named according to an established alphanumeric scheme that lays out [...]

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