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Alert: Scotland favoured for asteroid occultation of bright star

15 November 2014 Ade Ashford

Although the weather forecast is not too good, observers in Scotland and northern England could see asteroid (12655) 5041 T-3 occult a 5.7-magnitude star in western Cetus close to 7:48pm tonight.