http://nmp.jpl.nasa.gov/ds1/mrlog.html Dr. Marc Rayman's Deep Space 1 Mission Log Mission Update: Thank you for visiting the Deep Space 1 mission status ...
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Alan W. Harris
awharris@...
Nov 1, 2000 5:11 pm
... Sorry to be a bit of a killjoy, but the size, shape, and even orientation of Toutatis are already so well determined that neither an occultation profile...
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Brian D. Warner
brianw_mpo@...
Nov 1, 2000 5:51 pm
Alan, All work and no play turns a hobby into work. Toutatis was the very first asteroid I imaged with a CCD. I was lucky enough to aim the scope just right...
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Alan W. Harris
awharris@...
Nov 1, 2000 6:24 pm
... And, in fact, turns work into a drudge. I recall one time about 1978 observing on the 100" telescope on Mt. Wilson. I had built a coronagraph to reduce...
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Jon Giorgini
jdg@...
Nov 1, 2000 10:46 pm
Optical astrometry of Toutatis is still desireable, particularly if you are working at the .3" level and below. Current uncertainties for this close-approach...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Nov 2, 2000 1:35 am
NEAR image of the day for 2000 Nov 01 http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/20001101/ Color Mapping the Southern Hemisphere NEAR Shoemaker took this image on October 30,...
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Irving Robbins
Robbins@...
Nov 2, 2000 1:46 am
Dear Loren: Your help has been invaluable and fired me up to improve our system. But Alas I am confused and would like to get help on the best possible system...
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Jon Giorgini
jdg@...
Nov 2, 2000 3:05 am
Previously mentioned experiments on 2000 UG11 and 2000 UK11 are in progress at Arecibo (Steve Ostro lead) and start tomorrow at Goldstone (Lance Benner). The...
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Jon Giorgini
jdg@...
Nov 2, 2000 3:27 am
Errata -- Mike Nolan is the lead for these two at Arecibo....
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Brian Skiff
bas@...
Nov 2, 2000 5:14 am
A paper on optimizing observation of faint targets in bright Moonlight appeared on the Los Alamos preprint server this evening: ...
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Glen Deen
glen.deen@...
Nov 2, 2000 11:30 am
Could someone recommend a Windows application for simulating the solar system and comet orbits on the computer screen? -Glen...
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aah@...
Nov 2, 2000 3:42 pm
I looked at the paper Brian Skiff mentioned; it is interesting, basically saying you can decrease the night sky brightness by taking advantage of the...
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loomberah@...
Nov 2, 2000 5:55 pm
... another problem is the lines introduced by common photographic polarisers on each star image. I thought of this scheme in 1990 in the days before I had a...
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Borgmandl@...
Nov 3, 2000 1:00 am
Glen, A number of the planetarium programs including I believe The Sky have some level of this capability. There is also a web site that you can select the...
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Brian Skiff
bas@...
Nov 3, 2000 1:53 am
There's a handy list of programs for which the MPC prepares elements in the right format for at: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephemerides/SoftwareEls.html ...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Nov 3, 2000 5:21 pm
IAU Technical Review Team Assessment on Asteroid 2000 SG344 Issue date: Nov 3, 2000 Recognizing the public interest and concern over possible impacts from...
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Jon Giorgini
jdg@...
Nov 3, 2000 6:22 pm
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Nov 3, 2000 6:41 pm
I've setup this home page with an applet showing the possible impact in 2030: http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/orbits/2000sg344/ Ron Baalke...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Nov 3, 2000 7:58 pm
http://near.jhuapl.edu/news/flash/00nov03_1.html NEAR Shoemaker Pulls Back for Last Long View November 3, 2000 NEAR Shoemaker is taking its last long-distance...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Nov 3, 2000 8:33 pm
Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington, DC November 3, 2000 (Phone: 202/358-1547) RELEASE: 00-175 NASA CANCELS MINIATURE ROVER FOR JOINT...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Nov 3, 2000 11:13 pm
NEAR image of the day for 2000 Nov 03 http://near.jhuapl.edu/iod/20001103/ Crater with a Tail NEAR Shoemaker caught this picture of an old, heavily cratered...
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Reiner M. Stoss
rstoss@...
Nov 4, 2000 2:33 pm
... Todays DOU had additional observations from 1999 05 17 made by CSS, so with the LINEAR observervations from 1999 05 15 there are now two consecutive nights...
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David Tholen
tholen@...
Nov 4, 2000 8:57 pm
... May 15 and May 17 are not quite consecutive nights. ... They were measured that day. The original automated detection and measurement software missed the...
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Gareth V. Williams
graff@...
Nov 4, 2000 9:00 pm
... Just for the historical record, I should point out that Tim Spahr also examined the CSS pointing files and id'ed the proper field. ... Gareth V. Williams,...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Nov 4, 2000 9:28 pm
New Results for Object 2000 SG344 November 4, 2000 On the afternoon of November 3, Carl Hergenrother of the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona,...
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RA Kowalski
bitnik@...
Nov 5, 2000 4:19 am
I just did what I'm sure many of you have done yourselves; Run the current MPC elements for 2000 SG344 back in time to see when it made it's last current ...
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RA Kowalski
bitnik@...
Nov 5, 2000 5:45 am
I forgot to mention in my first post that on 12 Sept. 1970 the moon was 11 days old. Additionally, the information on the NASA web site previously mentioned...
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Tony Beresford
aberesford@...
Nov 5, 2000 5:58 am
At 16:15 5/11/00 , you wrote: hot". ... Richard,I would think the upper stage of a Proton isnt big enough to give the observed brightness. The SIV-B is much...
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RA Kowalski
bitnik@...
Nov 5, 2000 6:16 am
... Unfortunatley, the launch dates of Apollo 13 and 14 ( 11 April, 1970 and 31 January, 1971 ) do not match SG344's orbit and it's close approach on 12 Sept, ...
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David Tholen
tholen@...
Nov 5, 2000 6:21 am
... But you're assuming that your software gave the close approach date accurately. My own integration, which now includes the CSS observations from May 17,...
