The UT 7/8 February 2013 Sila-Nunam mutual event 82 future predictions

A superior mutual event of the Kuiper Belt binary system (79360) Sila-Nunam was observed over 15.47 h on UT 7/8 February 2013 by a coordinated effort at four different telescope facilities; it started similar to 1.5 h earlier than anticipated, the duration was similar to 9.5 h (about 10% longer than predicted), and was slightly less deep than predicted. It is the first full event observed for a comparably sized binary Kuiper Belt object. We provide predictions for future events refined by this and other partial mutual event observations obtained since the mutual event season began. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.