Does any kind of international protocol exist for dealing with potential impacts ? For example how such an event might be announced to the general public ?...
None at all so far as I am aware. In fact the last time we had a "scare" there was considerable Monday morning quarterbacking as to why it was not handled...
Hi Roger, I know of no "official" procedure for such an announcement. With apologies for a somewhat long post: I see two cases here: the Apophis case, where...
Hello Bill and others, A few comments on this post. I am right now writing my yearly statistics on NEO discoveries and adding a small text on the current state...
Thanks for the replies so far. For the sake of us who don't play American football what is 'Monday morning quarterbacking' ? Passing the buck or covering you...
Ahh.... I forgot that Monday morning quarterbacking is an American pastime, best pursued during office hours by a water cooler discussing what "could have ...
... The question of an "official" procedure has a long, and I must say in some ways sordid, past. Following the first fiasco with 1997 XF11, the IAU set up a...
Terrific.... Now we know that at least there will be trailers available after the fact. Clay _____ Dr. P. Clay Sherrod Arkansas Sky Observatories MPC H45 -...
Scarry message, wasn't the FEMA, the department of homeland security and so on the people who were in charge during the Katrina hurricane ? Wow... But don't...
... I don't check the NEOCP regularly either. The observatory I use is a public observatory a half-hour drive out of town, and as an amateur I don't get paid...
Thanks again for all you replies. I guess the process could be summarized thus; 1) Discover NEO 2) Confirm discovery 3) Compute orbit 4) Compute chance of...
5b had me laughing at my desk at at 7:00am. Thanks for a good start to the day! Michael Schwartz Tenagra Observatories ... From: Roger Dymock To: 'John...
Michael Schwartz
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Roger For what it's worth, here is a link to my 2002 paper on the public handling of asteroid impact information. I think most of my thoughts and ideas about...
Peiser, Benny
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The online service AstDyS (providing orbits, ephemerides, proper elements, etc.) for numbered and multiopposition asteroids has been down for several days...
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You folks will enjoy the last line..... Obama's wheels: Secret Service to unveil new presidential limo By Mike M. Ahlers and Eric Marrapodi CNN updated 1:15...
Dear Andrea I still have no access to AstDys, NeoDys and not even to your webpage. Have you been able to solve the problem? Gonzalo Gonzalo Tancredi Dpto....
They work good, Best regards, Ireneusz Wlodarczyk 553 Chorzow ... webpage. ... int. 319 ... elements, ... for several ... been ... our ... notice and ... not...
FROM: Johnny Cruz (520-621-1879; cruzj@...) January 8, 2009 Catalina Sky Survey Sets New Record for NEO Discoveries, Receives Funding Through...
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I do not understand. AstDyS is now up. NEODYS has never been down recently. My web page is up. ... ================================================ Andrea...
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The JPL NEO Program website mentions IAU Technical Reviews wrt potential impacts. Doea anyone know if any such reviews have taken place and are details of such...
An updated trajectory for the NExT spacecraft Earth flyby 2009-Jan-14 19:33 UTC (provided by the navigation team) is on Horizons. It includes the results of a...
Bill Ryan got some data on this object on 31 December and 2 January, so we've some clue as to its magnitude: http://home.gwi.net/~pluto/mpecs/next.htm with the...
Dear all, here is some astrometry of NExT from images taken tonight. Best regards, Luca Buzzi # 204 COD 204 ACK Batch (668) CON L. Buzzi, Via A. Del Sarto 3,...
... featuring Andrea Boattini and Don Yeomans. <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7824002.stm> (Note to journalists: that's the second article I've...
Thanks for the data Luca, As I enter this message I'm shooting a series of 10" exposures at 10" intervals as the spacecraft crosses my camera's 9' x 13' FOV. ...
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