2023 Occultations by Main Belt Asteroids - Updated 2023 January 6
These occultations are described and illustrated (in maps and tables) in this .pdf document. It includes several hot links to external Web pages, but links to internal files, the .xml input files used by the Occult program, are given below. When you open these files with your Web browser, you should get a display that looks like this. The larger files may take a couple of minutes to show this appearance, showing a messed-up display before then. Once the proper view appears, right-click anywhere on the display, then "Save as" to a directory on your computer; the best directory is the \Asteroid\ subdirectory in your Occult\ directory. For 2023: 25 North American main belt events to mag. 9.0, in the Handbook and the .pdf file. 152 North American main belt events to mag. 11.0 453 North American main belt events from Steve Preston Worldwide major planet and satellites events from Dave Herald Worldwide main belt events from Steve Preston - for them, prediction maps and data are available at https://www.asteroidoccultation.com/. But note that Preston updates and adds many events every two weeks, so they are comprehensive only for the next two months. Occult Watcher, described in the .pdf document, is the best way to find out about updated upcoming events near your location. Pages for maps and predictions of occultations by special classes of asteroids can be reached by clicking on the links below: Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) Major Planets and their satellites These other pages below will be posted soon, probably on Jan. 6, but the distant objects will likely not be until February. Selected Special Main-Belt Asteroids Trojan Asteroids (Lucy targets are emphasized) Distant objects (Comet SW1, Centaurs, and TNOs) ______ David and Joan Dunham, 2023 January 4; updated Jan. 6 e-mail: dunham@starpower.net cell phone: 301-526-5590