All, We confirm a rapid rotation with Arecibo radar imaging. It would be nice to get a spectrum and/or colors of this object. There's an image at...
Mike Nolan
nolan@...
Feb 1, 2007 3:21 pm
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Thank you Alan for your reply, I've taken only 50 x 1sec images with R filter for astrometric purpose, sky conditions were very good (transparency and seeing)...
I meant to send this to the group this morning, but only sent it to Luca. Carl ... Luca, Good work! I was able to spend three nights observing AM4 earlier this...
I have data from 20 and 22 January, which I thought was pretty useless due to the low SNR. However, when I use .084h as a starting point with .0001h steps, I ...
we ought to be able to store the record of it . . . http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16897774 This has gotten quite a buz on "St. Louis Astronomy"...
Robert Perry
perrybcn@...
Feb 2, 2007 2:30 pm
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That's ok. The whole thing was faked anyway. ;^)...
gpobs
gpobs@...
Feb 2, 2007 3:17 pm
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Maybe Gordon or Bob could enquire if the Mayor of Parkes has a better quality copy? Yes I was watching 'The Dish' last night. What a great movie! ... ...
I regret if this sounds like a commercial, (I have no financial interest in the product), but there is now Windows software available to take you from asteroid...
... There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain. Life on...
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/status/070205.html Stardust Mission Status Report Allan Cheuvront, Stardust Flight Director February 5, 2007 It has been...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Feb 6, 2007 12:59 am
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Hi to all, On December 26,2006, this was the 10 year anniversary edition of the ALPO Minor Planet Section MAP Alerts, created by Lawrence GARRETT. The MAP (...
Edwin Goffin drew my attention on the unusual orbit of minor planet 2005 TS100. Here are these elements, taken from the last batch of MPCs (2007 February 2) : ...
Jean Meeus
JMeeus@...
Feb 7, 2007 10:54 am
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... There are 17 observations spanning 2005 Sep 29 to 2005 Nov 26 that can be unambiguously linked to one another. Using those observations alone, KNOBS finds...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Feb 7, 2007 11:57 am
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Dave Tholen wrote: "...There are 17 observations spanning 2005 Sep 29 to 2005 Nov 26 that can be unambiguously linked to one another." MPES is now showing some...
there is a relatively strong resonance (19:21) with Jupiter there at 5.56002 AU Tabare Gallardo...
Tabare Gallardo
gallardo@...
Feb 7, 2007 1:59 pm
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Dear MPML users, Another binary asteroid in mutual event configuration! You should have a look to the web page listed below if you want to observe one of them....
I have a particular interest in asteroid diameters in the context of asteroid occultations. In that process I have extracted diameters from a number of sources...
Hi Gerars I looked at the MAP web pages, and it is not clear to me if the project is taking the phase coefficient into account. Note that the apparent ...
Hi Dave and Tommy, The more active MAP observers observe asteroids since a long time, more than thirty years. Up to the nineties, the official MPC absolute...
On the issue of reliability of the IRAS diameters compared to occultation diameters. Yes, there is generally good agreement - certainly differences of 30% or...
Sorry for this, but... I bought a book from a person on here and I accidentally deleted the last email from the conversation.. I do not have his email.. Got...
For the case some user of the software SOLEX is interested in looking at the past and future evolution of 2005TS100: To get a statistical picture of the...
I just wonder, if I have a pair of 20 minutes long orbit on two separate nights, how far apart could these two nights be and still link them with some...
Bill: The probability of making a correct link depends (among other things) on the crowdedness of the observed fields (that is, your limiting magnitude and the...
Mikael Granvik
mgranvik@...
Feb 8, 2007 3:37 pm
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Multimedia Advisory February 8, 2006 On the Hunt for Asteroids and Comets Asteroids and comets play starring roles in several audio and visual products...
... Some might argue that Ceres is not the largest asteroid. It's the largest body among the objects with orbits between Mars and Jupiter, but it's no longer...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Feb 9, 2007 12:07 am
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... Unfortunately, there is no simple answer to the question. A lot depends on just how distinctive the motion is. For example, if you have an object moving...
David Tholen
tholen@...
Feb 9, 2007 12:24 am
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Off topic but something folks here might be interested in. pw Cancelling of Small Missions Have Led to Lost Science Opportunities at NASA ...
