It remains a wonder to me such things are predictable in the first place. I realize every asteroid casts a shadow from every star in the sky, but noodling out in 3 dimensions (4 with knowing when) one of those shadows is going to cross the earth's surface accurately enough to have folks with the right equipment in the right places to watch is pretty amazing to be able to predict.
The illustration is of the Interamnia occultation. Every line represents an observer on the earth's surface and shows whether or not they saw the star wink out and for how long. If all the observations are synchronized in time and then the observations are correlated, the outline of the asteroid can be discerned. Turns out the synchronization of the observations is the hard part.
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The illustration is of the Interamnia occultation. Every line represents an observer on the earth's surface and shows whether or not they saw the star wink out and for how long. If all the observations are synchronized in time and then the observations are correlated, the outline of the asteroid can be discerned. Turns out the synchronization of the observations is the hard part.
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