The cosmic body has fixed a telescope. 
Photo from open sources Telescope “Master”, mounted on Astrophysical range of Irkutsk State University in Tunkinsky the valley was discovered by a previously unknown asteroid. This was reported in Director of the ISU Astronomical Observatory Sergey Yazev on his blog. – This telescope of the State Astronomical Institute named after Sternberg (GAISH) MSU operates as part of a network of similar telescopes located throughout Russia – from Kislovodsk to Blagoveshchensk, ”says Sergey Yazev. When watching scientists of the Tunka database of observations new asteroid. It is assigned the designation 2012 VG82, it is entered in world database. – This celestial body is in the Main Belt asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, writes Yazev. – At this facility rather elongated orbit: it approaches the Sun at its closest a distance of almost 260 million km and moves away from the Sun by the largest distance of 512 million km. Asteroid brightness small – 18 magnitude. This means that its shine is more than 60,000 times less than the brightness of the faintest star, which can be seen with the naked eye on a clear moonless night. By the way the asteroid was noticed only because now the celestial object is in opposition to the Earth – at the shortest distance to of our planet. But actually this minimum distance is very is large and amounts to just over 110 million kilometers. – to see a small and dark celestial body from such a distance with a relatively small telescope is a big luck, says astronomer. By the way, from the entire network of the “Master” system, only installation in Tunka Valley and Kislovodsk, located at an altitude of 2000 meters above sea level, able to confidently fix such weak objects. Photo: ogirk.ru
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