FWIW I've long regarded the Torino scale a rather bizarre 'waste of space' (no pun intended) --- The _Palermo_ scale, on the other hand, would seem the perfect...
Am just finishing an observing run having pointed in search of J01E42 the most easterly object on the NEO Confirmation Page. This appears to be a bright comet...
Savvy NEOCP watchers might have guessed this is a comet, and just guessing from the prelim designation, this is the latest find by Juels and Holvorcem, who...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Oct 3, 2006 5:45 am
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Brian, it's probably not a designation from Charles Juels and Paulo Holvorcem. They usually use HJxxxx. I would think it's from Bill Yeung since he uses...
... Okay, it was David Levy. Congratulations to David! Sebastian ... -- ... Sebastian F. Hoenig Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie Auf dem Huegel 69 ...
I've been helping David with this object the last few days. It was discovered visually Monday morning in Davids 16" newtonian at G92. Due to the comets...
... There are parts of the sky that surveys can never go. This just shows persistent amateurs can still work these areas with some success. Congrats David on...
... Sir, You may be chagrined but I'm delighted. Best regards, - Roy...
gpobs
gpobs@...
Oct 3, 2006 5:53 pm
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Hah! J, as in David's Jarnac Observatory. Congrats on David's first find in many moons. \Brian...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Oct 3, 2006 6:03 pm
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Hi All We have imaged this new comet remotely from New Mexico while still on NEOCP. Here You can find our image of this comet: http://tinyurl.com/hbu4h Our CCD...
... The discovery was visual, with apparently immediate followup with a nearby telescope equipped with CCD. Though the IAUC isn't clear, I would think...
Hello everyone, Has anyone run across or heard of the release of a report that is supposed to be release by NASA dealing with the subject of the "WORKSHOP ON...
Robert Warren
cometman_75@...
Oct 5, 2006 5:58 pm
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... It won't be out for a couple months yet. It is a report to Congress, but of course will be public at some point. Alan ...
Oct. 6, 2006 Dwayne Brown/Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/1237 Guy Webster/Natalie Godwin Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. ...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Oct 6, 2006 3:42 pm
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Hello, I wish to find a catalog or some lists of V-R indices for the numbered asteroids on a website or on professional reviews. Do you know some sources ? I...
Gerard, I had a project that also needed asteroid color indices. This is harder than it sounds! I took color indices from Zellner et al. (1985), supplemented...
Dr,\. Howell published a webpage with the page from her dissertation with the equations on it. It is at: http://www.naic.edu/~ehowell/colortransform.html But...
... OK, Cousins system. There really isn't such a thing as a Bessell system, since he was trying to reproduce (via models) the Cousins colors. Photometric...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Oct 7, 2006 10:27 pm
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Shoot ... I've seen plus or minu a few percent on a single asteroid's surface...... Brian Skiff <bas@...> wrote: >> But as stated there, this is for...
Doing rather simple searches on the Web, I am finding plenty of papers that are on-line with asteroid colors. Thus I suggest Gerard try poking around a bit in...
Brian Skiff
bas@...
Oct 7, 2006 11:27 pm
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... Vesta is certainly not a "typical" asteroid. In fact, it is the only asteroid that I consider to be reliably shown to have color variations over a...
Hello everybody! I report the possible prediscovery of comet P/2006T1 (Levy) on the infrared DSS image taken on 1995 Oct. 18th at 03:08 UT (POSS-II IR plate ...
Hi Dennis, ... sorry, for me it looks like an emulsion error or imaging or scanning artifact. Kind regards, Maik -- If they give you ruled paper, write the...
... That's not how comets look like on digitized plate material... well, if you really mean the completely diffuse and bended something in the lower part of...
... Yep, that's what I meant. If this "something" was a comet, it shoud have moved by about 1.25' during the exposure. The direction seems to be correct. But...
Hello again, At the page http://hea.iki.rssi.ru/~denis/2006RZ.html I have posted my images of 2006 RZ flyby during the night of maximum brightnesss (Oct. 5th...