http://picasaweb.google.it/astroligu/Varie#5535397030396198306 best regards Rolando Ligustri =============================== C.A.R.A. http://cara.uai.it...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Nov 4, 2010 5:19 am
Hello list, again - it is still possible! Comet 2010 V1, discovered independently by Kaoru Ikeya and Shigeki Murakami - both visually! Congratulations to both!...
I give hearty congratulations to these two visual comet discoverers, Kaoru Ikeya and Shigeki Murakami. A very inspiring discovery indeed! Truth and...
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walcom77
Nov 4, 2010 2:25 pm
Our confirmation image of comet "2010 V1": http://bit.ly/cJZP7n http://bit.ly/dxonMM Congratulations to Ikeya and Murakami for this discovery!! Ciao, Ernesto...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Nov 4, 2010 3:04 pm
Hello Rob, Maciej, ... just before I left for work I saw the additional astrometry and got the same result as both of you. I still wonder whether it may be of...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Nov 4, 2010 3:39 pm
Hello again, it looks like my second guess of this morning was quite lucky. Now I get 2010 V1 Perihelion 2010 Sep 28.819532 TT; Constraint: e=1 Epoch 2010 Nov...
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Bob King
cometlynx
Nov 4, 2010 3:42 pm
Hi everyone, I hope this isn't inappropriate, but I've been excitedly watching the live coverage of the the Deep Impact flyby of 103P/Hartley 2, and have just...
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dfischer@...
skyweek
Nov 4, 2010 3:45 pm
For the three best pictures, already cropped (but no other processing), you may also look at the top of my live-blog of the encounter at ...
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Bob King
cometlynx
Nov 4, 2010 3:56 pm
Excellent! Thanks Daniel. Bob ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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ligustri rolando
astroligu2002
Nov 4, 2010 4:01 pm
this is amazing and even better, that in a world of robotic systems and satellites looking for these items,there is still a chance to discover comets visually!...
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andre@...
astrowulff
Nov 4, 2010 4:31 pm
Hello to all, ... I think the comet is in outburst. If you calculate back with the orbital elements, the comet had to bee visible at around mag 8 during last...
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micmattei@...
micmattei
Nov 4, 2010 5:09 pm
Hello Group Have a look at the latest comet images here. Mike http://www.spaceweather.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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martin mc kenna
martinastro2003
Nov 4, 2010 5:10 pm
Congratulations Kaoru Ikeya and Shigeki Murakami on this remarkable comet discovery. It's exciting enough that this has been a visual find however bagging a...
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Burkhard
kometarium
Nov 4, 2010 5:24 pm
Hello Andre and all, my calculation with Maiks elements gives me a low elongation (<25°) back until April 2010. So not necessarily an outburst... Congrats to...
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jbortle@...
cnj999
Nov 4, 2010 5:29 pm
Hello Group Have a look at the latest comet images here. Mike _http://www.spaceweather.com/_ (http://www.spaceweather.com/) Certainly a bizarre-looking object!...
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Michal Drahus
traktorc360
Nov 4, 2010 5:38 pm
Hi John, ... Smooth terrains were also seen by this very spacecraft on Tempel 1. Mike Belton and Jay Melosh explain them by some sort of fluidization (see...
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John Drummond
john_drummon...
Nov 4, 2010 5:42 pm
Great to see that the Japanese legacy of visual comet discovery is still doing well! Well done!! John Drummond Possum Observatory Complex International Astro...
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RICHARD MILES
gallileo99uk
Nov 4, 2010 5:55 pm
We need to consider how such an object formed billions of years ago. Binary asteroids are relatively commonplace and we know that amongst the TNO population...
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John Drummond
john_drummon...
Nov 4, 2010 6:01 pm
Hi all, I have a request. I’m doing a paper with Swinburne Astronomy Online - http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/sao/prospective/units.xml For a project I’m...
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Maik Meyer
maiki666
Nov 4, 2010 6:05 pm
Hello John, ... http://www.projectpluto.com/find_orb.htm Cheers, Maik -- If they give you ruled paper, write the other way. * Juan Ramon Jimenez ...
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tricks46
Nov 4, 2010 6:18 pm
Great find to both people. Too bad we ar not on the other side of the Sun. Mike H....
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Rodney Austin
rodcomet
Nov 4, 2010 6:27 pm
Congratulations to them both - 47 years since Ikeya's first one. A triumph of persistence in the face of robotics. I must get my act together again ;:-})) ...
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Artyom Novichonok
artnovich
Nov 4, 2010 6:34 pm
Hello! I think, C/2010 V1 is in outburst now, because: 1. It's appearance similar appearance of comet Holmes, 29P and P/2010 H2 in outbursts. 2. H10 (standart...
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Artyom Novichonok
artnovich
Nov 4, 2010 6:45 pm
Hello all! COMET P/2004 F3 (NEAT) E. Romas (Rostov-na-Donu, Russia), A. Novichonok (Kondopoga, Russia) and D. Chestnov (Saransk, Russia) reports about recovery...
