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...
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P. Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
May 1, 2007 8:11 am
Understood and your points are well made. Thanks Dave. Clay ... Dr. P. Clay Sherrod Arkansas Sky Observatories Harvard MPC/ H43 (Conway) Harvard MPC/ H41...
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Dave Tholen
tholen@...
May 1, 2007 8:45 am
... 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...
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Alternatech (Jim Siss...
chivalrist
May 1, 2007 3:56 pm
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...
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Richard Kowalski
mpmlowner
May 1, 2007 4:50 pm
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...
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Dave Herald
dave_herald
May 2, 2007 12:28 am
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...
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Dave Tholen
tholen@...
May 2, 2007 2:17 am
... 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...
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John Mahony
jmmahony
May 2, 2007 9:56 am
... 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 ...
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hexagram14@...
happy_rasta
May 3, 2007 4:58 pm
MSNBC Breaking News: Mercury Seven astronaut Walter Schirra has died, NASA says Find out more at _http://breakingnews.msnbc.com_ ...
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Jean Meeus
JMeeus@...
May 3, 2007 7:02 pm
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...
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Ted Bowell
elgb@...
May 3, 2007 7:34 pm
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...
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Bill Owen
wmo@...
May 3, 2007 8:07 pm
... 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...
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Brian D. Warner
brianw_mpo
May 3, 2007 8:31 pm
Wm. Robert Johnson keeps good track of binaries http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/asteroidmoons.html This includes links to pages from active binary...
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Govert Schilling
goverts
May 3, 2007 8:44 pm
... 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 ...
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Ted Bowell
elgb@...
May 3, 2007 9:44 pm
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"...
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Franck Marchis
f_marchis
May 3, 2007 10:29 pm
Hello, Two "official"; lists were published last year in peer-reviewed articles Title: Binary Minor Planets Authors: Richardson, Derek C.; Walsh, Kevin...
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microplanet333
May 4, 2007 6:31 am
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...
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mgedawson2000
May 4, 2007 9:58 am
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...
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Carey Johnson
quarkcsj
May 4, 2007 12:16 pm
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...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
May 4, 2007 2:51 pm
Just to extend this inquiry slightly: does anyone maintain a list of orbital elements for these (admittedly, they'd be "something resembling elements" for...
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Dave Herald
dave_herald
May 4, 2007 3:07 pm
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...
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Aldo Vitagliano
alvitagl
May 4, 2007 3:40 pm
... 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...
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Franck Marchis
f_marchis
May 4, 2007 5:22 pm
To clarify, you can find below the reference for this successful secondary occultation which is based on our orbital model developed fitting ~30 AO...
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microplanet333
May 5, 2007 4:17 am
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...
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Quanzhi Ye
tom6740
May 5, 2007 9:05 am
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,...
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Pier Luigi Turrini
pieroturrini
May 6, 2007 8:52 am
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...
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Tommy Grav
drtgrav
May 6, 2007 12:25 pm
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...
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Pier Luigi Turrini
pieroturrini
May 7, 2007 5:35 am
... sorry (false-friend in Italian), I meant jurisdiction......
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Jure Skvarc
jskvarc2000
May 7, 2007 10:59 pm
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...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
May 8, 2007 3:25 am
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...
