no, not really.
But even with the Hubble Space Telescope, predicting occultations retains an element of voodoo.
If the folks watching for it were spaced every 20 miles apart, and the shadow of MU69 as projected onto the surface of the earth was 12 miles across, it's conceivable the shadow slipped thru the 'picket fence' undetected.
As for the SOPHIA observation, ouch, they need to thread the needle essential perfectly. I don't know if the ground track of the next occultation can be refined from the results of the last one. Hope so . . . .
But even with the Hubble Space Telescope, predicting occultations retains an element of voodoo.
If the folks watching for it were spaced every 20 miles apart, and the shadow of MU69 as projected onto the surface of the earth was 12 miles across, it's conceivable the shadow slipped thru the 'picket fence' undetected.
As for the SOPHIA observation, ouch, they need to thread the needle essential perfectly. I don't know if the ground track of the next occultation can be refined from the results of the last one. Hope so . . . .
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