Well, you can have a look at the Neodys pages, where occasionally some close encounter with planets and/or Ceres and Vesta are reported. Very likely it is a...
Understood and your points are well made. Thanks Dave. Clay ... Dr. P. Clay Sherrod Arkansas Sky Observatories Harvard MPC/ H43 (Conway) Harvard MPC/ H41...
... Even an orbit given to 13 digits of precision in each element wouldn't necessarily represent the "best-fit" trajectory. Any time you truncate a real...
Dave Tholen
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May 1, 2007 8:45 am
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I am truly dismayed at the type of attacks occurring here. There was no mention of something wrong with privately held telescope ownership and in fact it...
I'm rather dismayed by the fact in the recent "accuracy" thread that comments made in jest about using a telescope instead of continuing the thread, or the...
When I was young we were taught about 'significant places' in numbers. In this computer age, where you can program a computer to generate an answer to any...
... Your point is well taken, but I've talked to Myles Standish about the accuracy of the Earth ephemeris, and although the "official" word is that it's good...
Dave Tholen
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May 2, 2007 2:17 am
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... I've noticed a common problem with science reporting related to this, when journalists convert metric units to english for US news sources. Since several ...
John Mahony wrote: < I've noticed a common problem with science reporting < related to this, when journalists convert metric units < to english for US news...
Jean Meeus
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May 3, 2007 7:02 pm
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I have a feeling I should know the answer to this, but don't: Who keeps a list, "officially" or "unofficially", of binary asteroids? I ask because my colleague...
Ted Bowell
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May 3, 2007 7:34 pm
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... Nobody (to my knowledge) keeps an "official" list. Alan Harris has an unofficial one; so does Paul Chodas here at JPL. I do know that the number of...
Bill Owen
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May 3, 2007 8:07 pm
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Wm. Robert Johnson keeps good track of binaries http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/asteroidmoons.html This includes links to pages from active binary...
... i've always liked this one: http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/asteroidmoons.html but i don't know how official/complete it is ... govert schilling ...
Thanks to those who pointed me to Robert Johnson's list of binary asteroids, and especially to Alan Harris and Brian Warner, who both sent me their "private"...
Ted Bowell
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May 3, 2007 9:44 pm
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Hello, Two "official" lists were published last year in peer-reviewed articles Title: Binary Minor Planets Authors: Richardson, Derek C.; Walsh, Kevin...
Using a 18" scope, highest QE ST10XME CCD, 8 minutes exp. and New Mexico Skies 1.5" seeing, I believe I was able to detect mag. 21 asteroids. Out of the 24...
Amazing! The problem is the deeper you go the less help you get for followup. At or around the next opposition most of these will be too faint for garanteed...
I just retro-updated my calendar. It previously only went back to Jan. 2003. The entries before that were on the Yahoo Group calendar of the Amarillo Astronomy...
Just to extend this inquiry slightly: does anyone maintain a list of orbital elements for these (admittedly, they'd be "something resembling elements" for...
Yes - I'm also VERY interested in having even the most approximate orbits. While the various links given in the chain give _some_ orbital parameters, none of...
... 10^(-5), and that the state vector is therefore quoted to exactly five decimal places. If I were to enter that state vector into my integrator, and...
Matt, You are right. It did matter where one hunt when going this deep, by hunting mainly east of opposition, the newly discovered asteroids will become...
Yesterday I mistakenly sent my reply only to Bill, so I paste them here again. *** Here at D35 we also got 24 discoveries in last dark run by a 16" reflector,...
Recalling message from Franck Marchis, what I noticed is the absence of Minor Planet Center, in front of very good pages on multiple asteroids somebody else...
I think that there are two reasons for this problem. One is that it is not clear what the charter of the MPC is with respect to satellites and binaries. Their...
I noticed that MPCORB.DAT file format must have changed, probably recently. Since I don't remember any message regarding this change, I wonder if it is...
Hi Jure, It's caused trouble for users of my software, too. I got comments about it in the last week or two, though I think it may have been made before...
