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Previous chapters have covered visual observing and various ways of imaging asteroids. As demonstrated in this chapter, observing occultations of stars by asteroids is a suitable activity for both methods and can yield results that tell us something of the nature of the asteroids involved. Very occasionally an occultation will occur that is visible to the naked eye, one example being the occultation of δ (delta) Ophiuchus by (472) Roma on July 8, 2010, which was visible from a number of European countries.
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Dymock, R. (2010). Occultations. In: Asteroids and Dwarf Planets and How to Observe Them. Astronomers' Observing Guides. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6439-7_15
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