... If the discoverer consider it a planet, they would probably report to WGPSN and not to CSBN. Otherwise it would be not too clever since they somehow...
15303
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Aug 1, 2005 8:06 am
... I can agree with that. Can anybody explain how our understanding of the Solar System will be improved by the adoption of a formal definition that will...
... I'd love to have a go at answering this, especially since the question quotes me. However, I understand the group's moderator has called an end to the...
15306
Jean Meeus
JMeeus@...
Aug 1, 2005 9:18 am
< 3. There is (625) Xenia and the guideline (well, at least < it existed in the past) that names with the same < sounding are not allowed. However, there...
15307
Tommy Grav
drtgrav
Aug 1, 2005 9:21 am
Xena has to be an internal name, looking at the Hubble schedule posted earlier FY9 is code named Santa :) Tommy tgrav@... http://homepage.mac.com/tgrav/...
15308
John Mahony
jmmahony
Aug 1, 2005 9:29 am
... Imagine that: besides finding an object larger than Pluto, they also found an object at a temperature below absolute zero! Gosh, I'll bet they'll win a ...
15309
"Sebastian F. H€...
sfhoenig
Aug 1, 2005 9:44 am
... Perhaps not that interesting, but are all of these objects with internal K-designations at the end of the Phase-2 formatted listing already officially...
15310
SFJCody
Aug 1, 2005 9:48 am
... The pdf at http://www.stsci.edu/observing/phase2-public/10545.pdf lists a few other objects without official designations: 17 (19) OBJ-KBO30726D...
15311
P. Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Aug 1, 2005 11:54 am
I am not too happy about this choice of name either; what immediately comes to mind when hearing it is some overly-large woman in an uncomfortable, tattered...
15312
SFJCody
Aug 1, 2005 11:58 am
... Just looked at the orbits at the bottom of the page. None of them are anything like Sedna. Does anyone know what they are yet?...
15313
Alternatech (Jim Siss...
chivalrist
Aug 1, 2005 5:19 pm
YES! (see below) ... From: "Dave Tholen" <tholen@...> To: <mpml@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 1:06 AM Subject: RE: {MPML} 2003...
15314
Kevin Muenzler
wb5rue
Aug 1, 2005 5:46 pm
Why not Kybéle, the goddess of Frigia. At -400F it seems to fit, eh? ... From: mpml@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mpml@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of P. Clay Sherrod...
15315
Reiner M. Stoss
rms1kpde
Aug 1, 2005 7:53 pm
... I still need to think about this bizarre situation... Now after three big TNOs were found and published it is clear that there must be more of them. So...
15316
Gil Jones
azgilrock
Aug 1, 2005 8:34 pm
Well we all know there was data freely available on the internet that required no hacking to find. The question is did you use that data for ...
15317
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 1, 2005 8:50 pm
The Lowell 'Deep Ecliptic Survey' has a few dozen TNOs that are reported to the MPC but not published for lack of follow-up astrometry. Notional orbits...
15318
Felix Hormuth
fhormuth
Aug 1, 2005 9:58 pm
... A three day arc was used to find the object in the NEAT archive just 14 days later if I read the MPEC correctly. Then the next set was found 11 days later...
15319
Felix Hormuth
fhormuth
Aug 1, 2005 10:03 pm
Me again. ... Excuse me, but if I read the MPEC *really* correctly then not Reiner but J.L. Ortiz and R. Matson found the first archive positions. So they are...
15320
Matson, Robert
rdotdaneelol...
Aug 1, 2005 10:19 pm
Hi Felix, ... Thanks for the kudos, but I'm sure Reiner had no problem doing the NEAT precovery on 2003 EL61. When Ortiz posted his message to MPML (prior to...
15321
SFJCody
Aug 1, 2005 10:24 pm
... Some new MPECs popped up. KBO30726D is http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K05/K05P10.html and KBO40804A is http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K05/K05P11.html...
15322
SFJCody
Aug 1, 2005 10:29 pm
... Correction: it's KBO41003B...
15323
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Aug 1, 2005 11:05 pm
... Maybe, but I don't expect a sudden change in the description for Pluto to cause any change to my understanding of the Solar System. ... But Pluto hasn't...
So you're saying he had no problem doing the precovery work because Ortiz posted such a good orbit. Where did that good orbit come from? I would have thought...
15326
Reiner M. Stoss
rms1kpde
Aug 1, 2005 11:15 pm
Gil and list, I don't think that anyone of us needs to prove his innocence but rather the ones making accusations should prove their claims. Anyway, because...
15327
Reiner M. Stoss
rms1kpde
Aug 1, 2005 11:20 pm
... I have just posted a detailed reply. Please read it carefully. Anyway, Felix' reply already explained the basics. Yes, Rob, the orbit posted by JL already ...
15328
Gerard FAURE
gpmfaure@...
Aug 1, 2005 11:25 pm
Hello, With the last new message from Ron Baalke on the "tenth planet", it's difficult to stay silent... This last report has some dark sides, notably for the...
15329
David Whitehouse
Dr_D_Whitehouse@...
Aug 1, 2005 11:51 pm
It's blindingly obvious enough to be tautological that changing the nomenclature isn't going to change either the object, or its place in our scientific...
15330
John Mahony
jmmahony
Aug 1, 2005 11:59 pm
I have a slightly different impression of what happened here. I don't think Ortiz and/or Reiner are the ones implicated as "hackers". Using Marsden's mail...
15331
Greg Crawford
southern_obs
Aug 2, 2005 12:02 am
... Yes, indeed. Over the last two nights I aimed an 11 inch SCT at 2003 UB313 and did 10 minute guided exposures. It appears as a sharp point of light on...
