MinorPlanet.info: Five Brightest Apparitions

The oppositions circumstances from 1995 through 2050 were computed by Brian D. Warner.

Each line gives

Asteroid number

For the five brightest apparitions in the period 1995-2050

Opposition magnitude (V)

Opposition date (mm/dd.d)

Brightest magnitude (V)

Brightest date (mm/dd.d)

Approximate declination at brightest

Year (YYYY)

Each year's data are separated by the pile symbol ( | ).

A sample line is shown below.

# O.M. O.D. B.M. B.D. DEC YEAR O.M. O.D. B.M. B.D. DEC YEAR

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1 6.7 12 18.2 6.7 12 18.3 +25 2012 | 6.7 12 17.0 6.7 12 17.1 +25 2035 |

If an asterisk appears next to a given year, e.g., 2022*, that means that apparition is particularly favorable.

This is defined to be when the range of brightest to faintest apparition is > 1.0 mag and the brightest

in given year is 0.7 mag or more brighter than (brightest + faintest) / 2 - the average apparition.

Each line is 225 characters long (not including the CR/LF pair)