Dear colleagues, Some interesting rendezvous in March. http://www.aerith.net/comet/rendezvous/current.html * Periodic comets 30P and 31P become almost at the...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Mar 3, 2010 2:42 pm
Hello, we updated our blog with some notes about the approach of periodic comet 10P/Tempel: http://bit.ly/aJgHS0 With kind regards, Giovanni Sostero & Ernesto...
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P. Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Mar 5, 2010 7:20 pm
My hat is off to Gareth, Tim and the entire MPC team for getting the necessary link back on line as quickly as they did after the Feb. 12 hacking event of the...
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Bernd Häusler
stargazer_fr...
Mar 6, 2010 8:44 pm
Hi all, the remnant of the asteroid collision has still a constant dust structure, now 19.5 mag. ...
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hal.weaver
Mar 7, 2010 2:06 pm
Dear Bernhard, Congratulations on your very nice work! Cheers, Hal Weaver...
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Bernd Häusler
stargazer_fr...
Mar 7, 2010 3:15 pm
Thanks Hal, the “comet” is really interesting to observe. I didn’t expect the dust structure so constantly in PA 278 since two months. Clear skies ...
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jose pablo
darkman71es
Mar 8, 2010 10:39 am
Hi all , analysis and update the light visual curve of comet 29P/SW-1 , and analysis of the rate production of gas CO+ based 41 visuals observations of the ICQ...
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gvnn64@...
gvnn64
Mar 9, 2010 1:48 pm
Hi, you might be interested on the update of our blog: we have inserted some comments about our last observation of the (faint) comet...
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Juan José Gonzá...
jjgsgp
Mar 9, 2010 3:20 pm
C/2009 U3 (Hill): 2010 Mar. 8.85 UT: m1=13.3, Dia.=0.8', DC=3, 20 cm SCT (133x). [ Nearby field stars checked in DSS. Comparison stars taken from Henden ...
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Mr Wyatt
outbackmanyep
Mar 10, 2010 2:16 am
Hi all, I hate to drag up controversy here but i thought i'd ask the group what their thoughts are on the topic of "The Electric Comet" A discussion was...
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Reiner M. Stoss
rms1kpde
Mar 10, 2010 5:50 pm
... Less than three months to go now and the webpage was updated with many useful things, including information about how to register and optionally announce a...
C/2009 K5 (McNaught): 2010 Mar. 10.15 UT: m1=9.3, Dia.=4', DC=4, 20 cm SCT (77x). [ Several stars inside the coma, the brightest being mag. 12.2 (GSC). ...
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RICHARD MILES
rmiles.btee@...
Mar 10, 2010 11:38 pm
Hi Chris, I expect one piece of evidence lacking, given the proposal that comet jets are caused by electric discharge, is the absence of emission spectra ...
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Mr Wyatt
outbackmanyep
Mar 11, 2010 1:47 am
Hi Richard, Thanks for replying, i will ask that very question! I'll get back to you! Cheers! Chris W ... From: comets-ml@yahoogroups.com...
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John Menke
johnlmenke
Mar 11, 2010 3:09 am
Re Electric Comets, These are cool ideas... But... All the "evidence" cited in the references are qualitative. That is, there are no numbers at all. For ...
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jose pablo
darkman71es
Mar 11, 2010 5:24 am
Hi all , updating the light visual curve and outburts of comet 29P/SW-1 : http://webs.ono.com/jpab Best Regards , J.P.Navarro Pina. [Non-text portions of this...
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David Seargent
seargent@...
Mar 11, 2010 5:36 am
Dear all, Once again,it seems that this object remained completely asteroidal in appearance during the most recent return. There are two streams of thought...
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David Seargent
seargent@...
Mar 11, 2010 5:36 am
Hi all, This object has apparently shown no activity during its most recent return. There appears to be two schools of thought as to the nature of...
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David Seargent
seargent@...
Mar 11, 2010 5:36 am
Hi all, This object has apparently shown no activity during its most recent return. There appears to be two schools of thought as to the nature of...
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biver_nicolas
Mar 11, 2010 6:49 pm
... Dear all, I had a quick look at one of the link on "electric comets" but that really looks to me like pure (bad) science fiction from people who don't read...
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David Seargent
seargent@...
Mar 11, 2010 11:21 pm
Dear all, Sorry for the latest crop of postings. Computer doing crazy things, apparently swallowing my first attempt and then sending the second attempt twice,...
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sedna_90377
Mar 12, 2010 3:46 pm
Hi all, I remotely observed C/2009 O2 (Catalina) at last night in New Mexico, USA. There was no condensation in the coma and it was very diffuse. I cannnot...
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Bernd Häusler
stargazer_fr...
Mar 12, 2010 11:16 pm
Dear comet experts, P/2010 A2 is still having a very constant dust structure since two months. The structure is directed towards the Sun from the point of view...
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Luca Buzzi
buzzi_luca
Mar 13, 2010 1:10 am
Hi Bernard, good image and data. I was thinking... is it really useful to image this comet and obtain poor astrometry for the MPC? How can they calculate a...
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Reiner M. Stoss
rms1kpde
Mar 13, 2010 1:36 am
First CCD comet discovery for D. Levy (G92)? R....
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Luca Buzzi
buzzi_luca
Mar 13, 2010 4:28 am
Hi Hidetaka, yes, I can confirm your observation. The comet has a completely different aspect since my last images taken on March 5.18. Now it has not a...
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francois kugel
fkspect
Mar 13, 2010 7:27 am
Hello, I observed it this morning with our 0.5-m f/3. and can confirm yours observations. "Nucleus" magnitude decreased by 4 since my last observation of...
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Hiroki Akisawa
hiroki.akisawa
Mar 13, 2010 2:09 pm
Dear Bernhard and Dear Colleagues, My name is Hiroki Akisawa. I'm an amateur comet fan of Japan. How do you do. Thank you for Bernhard, excellent image and...
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Bernd Häusler
stargazer_fr...
Mar 13, 2010 2:16 pm
Hello Luca, thanks, I just added .gif animations of March 04 and March 11 to my web. You are definitely right, the measurements of P/2010 A2 are made from the...