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21596 Cristovao Jacques
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Mar 1, 2009
4:28 pm
Hello, We are preparing a webcast in the evening of march 5th for a 100 hours of Astronomy event. Among other activities, I´d like to have a partnership with...
21597 hexagram14@...
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Mar 2, 2009
3:58 am
Posted by kdawson on Sunday March 01, @04:55PM (from the just-a-flesh-wound dept. ) (http://science.slashdot.org/search.pl?tid=160) ...
21598 Tony Beresford
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Mar 2, 2009
5:03 am
... Although a new MPEC ( 2009 E10) has been issued with observations from I77, as of 0440UT the new orbit hasn't reached the Ephemeris generator. wait until...
21599 Robert McNaught
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Mar 2, 2009
5:29 am
The uncertainties for 2009 DD45 are now around 2' during closest approach. Additional astrometry (with the time accuracy now dominating the error) would be...
21600 Richard Kowalski
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Mar 2, 2009
8:41 am
For those MPMLers curious as to what Rob McNaught and Gordon Garradd look like, there is a photo of them on the Sky & Telescope page discussing today's flyby...
21601 Dave Herald
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Mar 2, 2009
9:54 am
A possibly heretical question. I am currently recording this asteroid via low-light video camera. Advantage is that I am time-stamping each video frame with a...
21602 Robert McNaught
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Mar 2, 2009
9:59 am
Hi Dave, Steve Quirk and I have done this with a Mintron and KIWI time stamp. He got his observatory code from such obs. Give me a call. Cheers, Rob ...
21603 Cristovao Jacques
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Mar 2, 2009
11:29 am
Hello, There´s an animation of last night observation of 2009 DD45 at http://ceamig-rea.net/NEO/2009DD45.avi 24 x 5 seconds images. Cristovao Jacques Eduardo...
21604 Dave Herald
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Mar 2, 2009
12:14 pm
I've just loaded a 1-minute video of 2009 DD45 onto UTube. [This is my first effort at a UTube upload....]. The video is at: ...
21605 P. Clay Sherrod
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Mar 2, 2009
12:29 pm
Note that there is a discrepancy in the elements of the position of new asteroid 2009 DD45 in the current MPEC updates ftp://cfa-ftp.harvard.edu/pub/MPCORB/ ...
21606 Robert McNaught
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Mar 2, 2009
12:37 pm
Given that the Epoch is 2008 Nov 30, perhaps your program isn't accounting for perturbations? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Robert H....
21607 Bill J Gray
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Mar 2, 2009
2:13 pm
Hi Clay, Sorry, I'm afraid my software has misled you a bit here. It's doing a two-body solution (i.e., the effects of the earth's gravity between the epoch,...
21608 Dave Herald
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Mar 2, 2009
3:56 pm
For those that are interested - I solved the problem of getting a measurable image from the video as follows: 1. I displayed the video on a frame-by frame...
21609 Alan W Harris
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Mar 2, 2009
6:55 pm
... Or, of more interest to me, photometric reduction. This little guy ought to be a super-fast rotator, maybe tumbling. If you have a long time sequence on...
21610 Dave Herald
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Mar 3, 2009
12:12 am
I use video routinely for asteroid occultations - and we have excellent software for extracting a light curve from a video recording. I did measure some...
21611 Fabrizio Bernardi
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Mar 3, 2009
12:47 pm
Dear all, you probably noticed that NEODyS at http://newton.dm.unipi.it is still unstable. We just want to let you know that we are working on it and we ...
21612 KCStarguy@...
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Mar 3, 2009
7:37 pm
Congrats on the captures. You all are good. I will post some links on my Black Sun blog Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@...), Olathe, KS:  Lat 38.834, Lon...
21613 Ron Baalke
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Mar 3, 2009
8:47 pm
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-035 Newfound Moon May Be Source of Outer Saturn Ring Jet Propulsion Laboratory March 03, 2009 NASA's Cassini...
21614 Patrick Wiggins
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Mar 4, 2009
12:15 pm
It's been slow here so I hope y'all wont mind this off topic post. I came across a couple of slides I took years ago when I was first dabbling in...
21615 Dave Herald
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Mar 4, 2009
12:30 pm
For information. Our interest in asteroids might be seen by many as being rather arcane/esoteric/of not much general interest. With that background, I thought...
21616 Dennis Di Cicco
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Mar 4, 2009
3:02 pm
Patrick, Sorry if this is a duplicate post, but my reply from earlier this morning has never shown up on the list. The globular cluster is M13, but the reason...
21617 Ron Baalke
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Mar 4, 2009
5:33 pm
http://www.eso.org/public/outreach/press-rel/pr-2009/pr-08-09.html ESO 08/09 - Science Release 2 March 2009 For Immediate Release The lower atmosphere of Pluto...
21618 Juan Antonio Henrí...
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Mar 4, 2009
8:46 pm
Yes, Dave a great respnse, and great video too Congratulations, Juan A. Henríquez http://atlante.org.es 2009/3/4 Dave Herald <drherald@...> ... ...
21619 ido12342001 Send Email Mar 4, 2009
11:48 pm
Hello, We made a web cast of Lulin last week. The special web cast of comet Lulin from Israel, was a great success. Overall we had more than 38,000 entries...
21620 Patrick Wiggins
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Mar 5, 2009
5:55 am
Right you are Dennis. Flipping the image helped. More help came from taking the slide apart and cleaning the glass and the film. When I did that many of the ...
21621 Richard Kowalski
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Mar 5, 2009
7:37 am
I'd like to photograph my meteorite collection with a 1-cm scale cube next to my samples, but I've only found two for sale on eBay, one of brass the other of...
21622 Richard Kowalski
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Mar 5, 2009
8:21 am
I should mention that I've already thought about gaming dice and have gotten a few private emails about them too. Unless you can find ones that are exactly...
21623 Eric Frappa
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Mar 5, 2009
12:15 pm
Dave, your video is very nice! An easiest way to obtain images from your video file, especially if you need a sequence of images to process them, is to use...
21624 Peter Birtwhistle
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Mar 5, 2009
8:57 pm
For those trying for this very fast mover now, currently the MPC MPES ephemeris is more than 1 degree off - the elements are already taking account of...
21625 grunwalder2002 Send Email Mar 5, 2009
9:27 pm
... It was. About 10 minutes before you sent this message. MPEC 2009-E40. Gareth...
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