Hello everyone - Hi Allan - I am not am amateur, but rather have followed the debate over impactor injection mechanisms, though now suffer from stroke damage,...
Hi - As many of you know, despite being so near-sighted I can only walk when sober, and having my celestial mechanics rather completely scrambled by my stroke,...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
May 3, 2010 1:58 am
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-143 Cassini and Amateurs Chase Storm on Saturn Jet Propulsion Laboratory April 29, 2010 With the help of...
Dear all The report below has been sent to the CBAT but for those who want to further follow this comet there might be some useful early information here. ...
I am an amateur astronomer interested in getting started in minor planet hunting. Does anyone have advice as to where to begin? I live in an area that is very...
Hello Laurel, complex question to answer and depends widely on your astronomical background. Hunting for new, unseen asteroids is time consuming and no longer...
Howdy Laurel, If I might add one bit to Alexander's excellent post, I'm not ready (at least not yet) to say amateurs can not make new finds. Granted, it's...
From the Ephemeris Service J95 saw this on the 3rd of May, and it's a coming radar target! Andrew...
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RICHARD MILES
rmiles.btee@...
May 4, 2010 10:11 am
Observations made with the 2.0-m Faulkes Telescope North on April 30 confirm the presence of a spiral-shaped outflow of material as reported by Jure Skvarc. A...
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Dave Tholen
tholen@...
May 4, 2010 11:17 am
... 2002 JR100 Epoch 2010 Jul 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 Tholen M 184.08902 (2000.0) P Q n 1.10937898...
Hi all, I come back to the issue of the asteroids' name and I suggest an idea. Nowadays there are almost 7.000 NEO asteroids without the name and in the future...
Hi all, I recovered 2002 JR100 from Tenagra (926) on May 2 UT, and then again on May 3 UT. When I tried to fit an orbit linking the 2002 observations to my...
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jmeeus@...
May 4, 2010 2:09 pm
I think it would be a good idea. I have two suggestions: (1) Please give names that can be "pronounced". Too often we find complicated names, such as 13564...
Well, it is a good idea ... in a way. For Example, the Naming X competition, which, as a tribute to recently deceased Venetia Burney Phair, gives kids a chance...
Dear All Here you can see our image of comet P/2010 H2 (VALES) taken few hours ago remotely from New Mexico, showing the spiral structure: http://bit.ly/cD20yq...
... I have two suggestions: (1) Please ... we find complicated names, ... or 25606 Chiangshenghao. Of course it's not the ... those persons that their names...
I fully agree with John on this. I find the suggestion that names be pronounceable from a Eurocentric language perspective to be (to put it politely) totally...
As you apparently recognize, every asteroid has a 'name', such as the examples you give of 235756 and 1984QY1. You note that something like 1984QY1 is 'even...
See the message from Mike Nolan below. The thing is about 15.2 tonight but moving about 45"/minute. If you get data and, more important, a lightcurve period...
... when asteroids were relatively few in number and had individual significance. Given the now vast number of known asteroids there is a good case to be made...
Greg, at first blush what you say makes sense, until a little more though is put into the topic. The asteroids are all lumped together in a set. A name for any...
Hello all, Paulo Holvorcem recently mentioned on this list that he'd had a problem with a bad orbit solution from Find_Orb. That problem turns out to be a...
Hi folks - NASA has these x-prizes for different things, so why not an x-prize for follow-up astrometry? Do so much of it, and you get better equipment, and a...
Certainly understand your wanting to create names. We all like names. But the creation of them, particularly 230,000 or so would get messy. About 25 years...
Immanuel Kant: “On the basis of a slight assumption I have undertaken a dangerous journey, and I already see the promontories of new lands. Those people who...
