... Apparently A. U. Tomatic drank too much champagne last night and this morning didn't feel like making the DOU ;-) The Mallorca robot R. E. Moto did...
Hello to all.... The year 2003 was a remarkably successful year of observation and transition for ASO. As most are aware, this past year saw the development...
Hello to all....hoping for the brightest stars in the coming year. The year 2003 was a remarkably successful year of observation and transition for ASO. As...
Today's DOU is on the website, but there is no link to it. To access, either bring up A01 and overwrite A01 with A02 in the URL address bar and hit enter, or...
This appears to have a high amplitude. On Dec 30, in a sequence of 12 x 10s frames, only one image was obvious, and it was so very obvious that at first I was...
Robert McNaught
rmn@...
Jan 2, 2004 4:26 am
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(A more official annoucement will soon be submitted to the IAUC.) Dear asteroid observers, Photometric observations of the asteroid (1089) Tama, obtained by R....
Raoul Behrend
Raoul.Behrend@...
Jan 3, 2004 5:10 pm
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Raoul, Congratulations to everyone on the observing team! Nicely done. Clear Skies, Brian Warner Palmer Divide Observatory (716) Colorado Springs, CO ...
... I've looked at the lightcurve, and I'm not really convinced that it's necessarily a binary system. It's not too dissimilar from a lightcurve I obtained on...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Jan 3, 2004 8:28 pm
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You've rightfully mentioned the possibility that such a lightcurve with sharp minima (having sharp bends, i.e., points of discontinous first derivation)...
... What is quite unique are the "shoulders" at the point of onset of the putative eclipses. Your lightcurve of Kleopatra, and every other large amplitude...
... If the geometry is favorable, we might seen certain characteristic features like a widening (or even a "splitting") of the events, or possible "stops" in ...
... I did notice the "shoulders". I also noticed that the error bars go away on all the eclipse points but are there on all the rotational lightcurve points....
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Jan 4, 2004 3:53 am
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... I mentioned that briefly in an earlier post. It turns out whether the stable equilibrium is along the major or minor axis depends on mass ratio. for a...
... Those shoulders have drawn my attention yesterday as well. I have looked at them in the data provided by Raoul, and it might be another component of a...
I am compiling my yearly statistics on NEO discoveries, using data from the MPC and I have 3 objects listed as "no discoverer on file", then 4 objects for...
Alain Maury
amaury@...
Jan 4, 2004 10:39 pm
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... Hey, one is ours! http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K03/K03Q03.html http://www.astrometrica.at/Images/200309.html http://www.oam.es/asteroides/2003QA.htm ...
... Dear Asteroid observers, Further to Raoul's announcement above, photometric observations continue to show features very suggestive of a binary system. I...
Only one image taken when the sapeccraft was 500 km from the comet nucleus has been released (I am wondering how many they colected!). See ...
Michel Festou
festou@...
Jan 5, 2004 4:46 pm
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... Yes, I am here, reading the list, working with the students, fighting with more or less effect the growth of light pollution in Croatia and trying to move...
... Dear Michel, I am a little surprised by your firm assertion that the features are "erosion craters." How can you tell, other than as a matter of ...
... 72 images total, from what I've heard. 70 are on the ground and complete. 2 have to be retransmitted due to dropouts. More images to be released at a...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Jan 5, 2004 9:05 pm
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... Don't worry, it did. The Dust Flux Monitor data showed the spacecraft went through two jets, and the spacecraft was thrusting to keep itself pointed at the...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jan 5, 2004 9:30 pm
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I spoke with their PR guy this morning. He said that at tomorrow's (Tuesday, 11:30 a.m. PST) news conference they will release one more still and a flyby ...
http://www.isas.ac.jp/e/snews/2004/1226_itokawa.shtml Asteroid "ITOKAWA", Target of "HAYABUSA", Comes in Sight Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency December 26,...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jan 6, 2004 6:12 pm
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MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICE JET PROPULSION LABORATORY CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION PASADENA, CALIF. 91109....
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jan 7, 2004 12:32 am
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Compare the image of Wild-2 to Proteus: <http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/proteus.html> Interesting! -joshua...
joshua kitchener
staff@...
Jan 7, 2004 12:51 am
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... Yes, it is also black and white ;-) Or did I miss anything? ... The apparent graininess of the image is caused by the short exposure necessary to avoid...
All, We can observe 2004 AD at Arecibo in an already-scheduled window (waiting for the radar signal to come back from Saturn, we have an hour and a half...
nolan@...
Jan 7, 2004 4:11 am
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SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA CREW MEMORIALIZED ON MARS NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today announced plans to name the landing site of the Mars Spirit Rover in...
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