... It was the uppers tage rocket ( 2004 041 B catalog no. 28447) which helped get the AMC-15 US owned commercial comsat to geostationary orbit. Its...
Hi Tony, Thanks very much for that information. It makes sense now. I was surprised at the length of time it was visible in my CCD image. Now I see why. Best...
Hi Reiner, Thank you very much for your observations! Indeed it is possible to be some artifact, but for me it is really strange. I haven’t so much...
That looks very much like an artifact to me. There are two other nearby artifacts that look very much like smudges of one kind or another. And if I animate the...
Hi Filip Did you already take a look at the two images in a blink comperator (e.g. in CCDSoft) ? Which artifact do you mean ? The a bit diffuse looking object...
Actually I didn't plan to go for ZVO001 because the observations given on NEOCP to me pretty much indicated that it is a DNE. The astrometry did not really fit...
I originally sent this to just Filip ( forgot about send to all thing.. and I did clean up a couple of grammatical errors.) ... Subject: Re: {MPML} New diffuse...
Hi Reiner, I am apologies but have to answer you. I don’t know why after my really a kindly question you decided to write: “Anyway, think that one must be...
Filip, ... I think this is a misunderstanding here. Reiner's answer was in no way a personal attack, not even unpolite. And I also guess that he did not want...
Not sure when the last NEO was discovered from Argentina, but here is one: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K09/K09L05.html Congrats, folks! You search for...
1. I have had a couple of instances where I thought I had discovered a comet. Fuzzy object that has motion. Much excitement. Fortunately I determined that they...
In the early days of E12, we got occasional "slow moving fuzzies"; small diffuse objects that moved slowly to the west, as I remember. There seemed no...
Robert McNaught
rmn@...
Jun 2, 2009 7:11 am
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... Today's DOU MPEC has updated orbits for almost seven hundred numbered minor planets: http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K09/K09L07.html I don't know if the...
http://www.astrode.de/CERES2009b.HTM has a lot of exciting visuals (and even more text - in German) on recent successful attempts to resolve the disk and -...
This is something that the participants of this forum should vigorously protest and attempt to reverse. This obviously will serve no purpose other than...
Actually I'm surprised this has not happened already. The way I understand it (someone please correct me if I'm wrong) anyone, be they a discover or not, may...
That is truly the key here: they are essentially taking the rights of discovery away from the discoverer. The "Star Registry" scam that has been going on...
Clay: This may be an IAU matter, so there may be discussion about it at the next General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in two months' time. Thanks for the...
Edward Bowell
elgb@...
Jun 4, 2009 11:34 pm
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Shouldn't the subject be "name other people's asteroid"? ;-) After all Mr. Joshua Kit (according to whois services that's the person behind this scam) is...
"Is the IAD an official organization? The global body in charge of giving asteroids their official designations is the Minor Planet Center, which is...
.....and what agency gives them that "right" to do so? I would think that this is an issue that can clearly be stopped by cooperation with the IAU, MPC and the...
... The IAU is not even able to control its CSBN mess. As Patrick said, as discoverer you have for ten years after the object was numbered the *privilege* to...
From the IAU CSBN site: http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/IAU/csbn/ Naming Small Bodies The committee welcomes questions or suggestions about its procedures or ...
Some of the terminology used indicates the person behind it has more than a casual familiarity with asteroids. For example, I do not believe someone with...
Hello Reiner, Now we have laughed enough, tell us the truth, you made this page, didn't you ? So you have a second life in Florida... interesting... Any way,...
... Yes. But there are also some glaring errors and inconsistencies: The "info" page says "To date, scientists have discovered about 60,000 asteroids in the...
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