Could someone give me a brief esplination of http://hohmanntransfer.com/news.htm the details in the risk assesments here? For example 2004 XN44 For Years it...
... NEODyS main Risk page JPL Current Impact Risks page where all is good described. Best regards, Ireneusz Wlodarczyk, 553 Chorzow ... TS, ... the stipulation...
I looked at the pages, and indeed didn't find anything explaining clearly all these terms. The page must be apparently used by people who know. Know what, I...
... When it comes to short-arc orbits, you can't simply "run the ephemeris" for "it" and expect to know whether the object can or cannot come close to the...
Dave Tholen
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Jun 2, 2007 9:45 pm
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Josh Emery is asking for help in support of Spitzer observations. He needs lightcurves of these objects close to the time of the Spitzer runs. Geocentric...
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_6_07.asp Dawn Journal Dr. Marc D. Rayman June 2, 2007 Dear Dawngeneers, Dawn has been greatly enjoying its stay in the...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 5, 2007 3:46 pm
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Spaceweather.com has some new listings for upcoming NEA's. In the past the list has been of NEA's that have already passed CPA, but it is finally listing...
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/status/2007/elvstatus-20070606.html George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 06.06.07 ...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 6, 2007 6:44 pm
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Issue 34-3, the largest issue ever at 42 pages, is now available as a free download (PDF). http://www.MinorPlanetObserver.com/mpb/default.htm While the issues...
http://discovery.nasa.gov/Discovery15/ Discovery@15 - Looking Back, Moving Forward In 2007, NASA's Discovery Program celebrates its 15th anniversary with a...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 6, 2007 7:12 pm
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Expedition 15 commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and flight engineer Oleg Kotov attached a dozen metal plates to a Russian segment of the ISS and found signs of past...
Josh Emery has another target for the Spitzer in his sights. A lightcurve for it around the time of the observations would be very helpful 1998 XN77 Spitzer...
Hello Everybody, 6R10DB9, a small ~2-3 meter rocky body in a temporary geocentric orbit, will make one more close approach to Earth before escaping the ...
Greetings Everyone, Goldstone radar observations of 6R10DB9 are scheduled on June 12, 14, and 17. It will be the smallest and closest asteroid we've ever ...
Lance Benner
lance@...
Jun 9, 2007 3:25 am
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As many of you know the Dawn mission is getting ready to launch to head to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres (dawn.jpl.nasa.gov). Fortunately, Vesta is a fairly...
Ladies and Gentlemen of MPML, It sounds as if this object is generally considered to be an asteroidal body now. Why no preliminary asteroid designation? Is it...
ROY TUCKER
gpobs@...
Jun 9, 2007 5:45 pm
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My main comment on this is that it is not good to define a class by an unknowable parameter. In this case, if one wants to exclude man-made objects (and...
Greetings MPML collectors: Being an incurable collector, could someone direct me to the Dawn mission patches for sale, if any? BTW, I found the Vermonter with...
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_6_10_07.asp Dawn Journal Dr. Marc D. Rayman June 10, 2007 Dear Dawntelligentsia, The complex and intricate steps...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 12, 2007 4:03 pm
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I am finishing up the fourth volume of Cometography and have a puzzle. Who found images of periodic comet 88P/Howell on Palomar Observatory Sky Survey images...
Hello, as I read at: <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/WhatsNew.html>http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/WhatsNew.html Access to some MPC-published citations for...
06.14.07 George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 STATUS REPORT: ELV-061407 EXPENDABLE LAUNCH VEHICLE STATUS REPORT Mission: Dawn Location:...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 14, 2007 3:29 pm
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Dear all in the past I have discussed in this list about asteroids in some unusual resonances and in particular in a recent publication in Icarus I showed...
Tabare Gallardo
gallardo@...
Jun 14, 2007 5:13 pm
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If an asteroid has a 1 day arc, I was told before that a rule of thumb is that one could reliablely recovered it 10 days later. In the case of 2007KB4, due to...
... Two nighter from May 15/18 recovered on June 13. Not a problem with the 36-cm f/2 and one field centered on nominal. The question is rather why nobody else...
Caltech News Release Embargoed until 11:00 AM PDT, Thursday, June 14, 2007 The Dwarf Planet Known as Eris is Bigger, More Massive than Pluto, New Data Shows ...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 14, 2007 6:59 pm
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... Well, it fits, but you need a fourth night to make sure that you didn't link two separate objects (which is surprisingly easy to do). Fortunately, I don't...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Jun 14, 2007 8:25 pm
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http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/WhatsNew.html ... A new ECS service to allow extraction of observations of specific minor planets, comets and natural...
June 14, 2007 Ray Villard Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore 1-410-338-4514; villard@... Robert Tindol California Institute of Technology,...
