Re: [guide-user] solar transits

Paul Schlyter Jun 24, 2003

> 1991 VE just missed the southern limb of the sun for MPC 762 on May 31
> but it has a diameter of 1.4 Km and was 0.7 AU from the Earth.

Which would imply an apparent diameter if a little less than 3 mas
(milli-arc-seconds). 1 km at a distance of 1 AU would have an
apparent diameter of some 1.4 mas


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