alt Hacker NewsIf anyone is interested, here is its orbit, my old day job was to compute orbits for asteroids and comets.
(This uses wasm, meant for a desktop, and will download the asteroid catalog of about 65mb, you have been warned)
https://dahlend.github.io/ketev/#t=2009-07-01.717&sel=2026%2...
This is a big boy.
If you turn on the 'Stars' in that, you'll see that its currently in the interesting direction of the sky - 'twards the center of the Milky Way where we've got other telescopes looking. I wonder if we would have detected it if it was 180° further in its orbit.