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NEO Asteroid 231937 (2001 FO32) is coming.
It will pass approx 5 lunar distances from Earth March 21 and be visible in 8" and larger scopes for a couple of nights.
Max mag 11.6. Motion relative to stars of up to 2.5 deg/hr. Fast enough to be interesting, slow enough to be easy to find.
I've just written a short article, provided Bessel elements, and provided a link to another article in the Astronomy News subforum:-
