While looking for some bright targets for lightcurve determinations, I ran our 'slop' program to produce a list of asteroids presently brighter than R mag 16...
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Dave Herald
dave_herald
Dec 9, 2010 10:01 pm
Thanks Arne for that clarification. I obviously had misread the info about it. The fact that you will have almost all UCAC3 stars in it is fantastic news Dave...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Dec 9, 2010 11:35 pm
Dec. 9, 2010 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@... Cathy Weselby Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-2791 ...
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Fabrizio Bernardi
kaalt
Dec 10, 2010 8:31 am
Dear all, starting from 11UT today the NEODyS service in Pisa will be down for a couple of hours or so due to the switch to a new and most performing machine....
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varyonyx
Dec 10, 2010 9:20 am
Just to notice ;) More information about this flyby... http://www.vsu.dyndns.org Best regards Alexander Christ (VectorSCOPE)...
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Tomas
scibuffcom
Dec 10, 2010 1:05 pm
Having written a few web apps I personally prefer the packed designations and have no need for the "human readable". After a while one just learns to think in...
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Fabrizio Bernardi
kaalt
Dec 10, 2010 1:41 pm
NEODyS@Pisa is back on line at the usual http://newton.dm.unipi.it/neodys web address Regards, Fabrizio Bernardi...
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Dave Herald
dave_herald
Dec 10, 2010 1:41 pm
I suspect the next crunch point for packed designations is the packed designation for numbered asteroids. The latest numeration is P7455 - corresponding to...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
Dec 11, 2010 12:21 am
Hello all, I see this object is getting quite heavily observed. I'd suggest looking elsewhere; this is definitely Planck. It matches the JPL _Horizons_...
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walcom77
Dec 12, 2010 2:31 am
Hi all CBET nr.2583, issued on 2010, Dec. 12, announced the discovery by S. Larson (CSS survey) of the comet-like appearance of the main-belt asteroid (596)...
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Marshall Eubanks
tmeubanks
Dec 12, 2010 2:57 am
... Very interesting. I have to wonder if this is not the result of a meteorite strike on 596 Schella. In that case, I would expect the "tail" to dissipate...
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Matson, Robert D.
rdotdaneelol...
Dec 12, 2010 3:34 am
Hi All, The first thing I wondered was whether this was the aftermath of a recent small asteroid collision with (596) Scheila. I don't have the right tools to...
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Marshall Eubanks
tmeubanks
Dec 12, 2010 3:57 am
... It is good to do this, but the lack of a "hit" doesn't prove much. The impactor might be in (say) the 50 or even 500 meter class - plenty big enough to...
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Alan Harris
harrisaw
Dec 12, 2010 5:03 am
... Or 1 m class. The amount of dust seen could be raised by a one to few meter sized impactor, utterly below the size of anything we might know as a ...
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Dave Herald
dave_herald
Dec 12, 2010 5:39 am
Re probabilities of mutual collisions: Using 'order of magnitude' maths, think of the asteroid belt as an annulus of mean radius 4AU, width 1 AU, and height...
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walcom77
Dec 12, 2010 12:00 pm
Blog post updated with new images of (596) taken on December 12, 2010 at 08:20Ut: http://bit.ly/flUAye Direct link to the image: http://bit.ly/g99Qs9 Ciao, ...
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lebofsky@...
llebofsky
Dec 12, 2010 12:30 pm
Hello Dave: But, how many asteroids are there actually down to 1 km and how big of an object is needed to make something we can see? I think the surveys are ...
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Sergio Foglia
s.foglia@...
Dec 12, 2010 12:50 pm
Dear all image from Tzec Maun Observatory, Mayhill posted at the following URL: http://www.apan.it/pianetini/pub/596/596.htm Regards Sergio Foglia [Non-text...
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Jean-Claude MERLIN
jcmerlin@...
Dec 12, 2010 1:54 pm
Hi all, There is something like an obsession or a phantasm making everything due to impacts in the solar system. 596 Scheila may effectively be a comet...
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pbirtwhistle
Dec 12, 2010 2:30 pm
Here is a 24.7 min integration of (596) Scheila showing the large arc to the north and smaller arc to the south, the field is 3'x3'. ...
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P. Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Dec 12, 2010 2:36 pm
I agree with the obsession of impact astronomy: it is "fun." However, what if the impactor were a hitherto unknown comet? Then spectroscopy would be ...
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varyonyx
Dec 12, 2010 3:26 pm
Heyho, i would like to contribute to the "fun" ;) no known Asteroid detectable designated with a MPC Number 1-478009 within 500 000km distance to "Scheila" in...
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varyonyx
Dec 12, 2010 3:28 pm
... means 12/13/+2010 ;) Best regards Alexander Christ (VectorSCOPE)...
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Reiner M. Stoss
rms1kpde
Dec 12, 2010 3:41 pm
... I would use the same format as MPC does: YYYY-MM-DD Anything else is mistakable. ... What means "MPC# 478009" and/or "MPC Number 1-478009"? The highest...
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Marshall Eubanks
tmeubanks
Dec 12, 2010 5:12 pm
... That is not the way to think about it. Look at the Mars crater count tables (which are based on Lunar crater counts as validated by Apollo samples). See,...
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Marshall Eubanks
tmeubanks
Dec 12, 2010 5:36 pm
... True enough - but can we be sure that this impact just happened ? http://remanzacco.blogspot.com/2010/12/comet-like-appearance-of-596-scheila.html says...
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John Hall
jhall153
Dec 12, 2010 5:45 pm
Comet like appearance of 596 Scheila that I caught last night John Hall-Angel Peaks Observatory H17, Cotopaxi,Colorado. [Non-text portions of this message have...
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varyonyx
Dec 12, 2010 6:04 pm
Heyho Reiner, sorry for the inconvenience, to say "MPC" is not ok ;) to clarify this... #1= Ast Ceres #478009= Ast 5741 T-3 based on "Astorb.dat" from...
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Charles Bell
charbell...
Dec 12, 2010 8:23 pm
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cbellh47/5253608615/ Time Stamp: 2010 12 12, 10:45:39 UT stack of 9 x 495 sec exposures 0.3-m f/6.5 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD + Red...
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lebofsky@...
llebofsky
Dec 13, 2010 3:10 am
Marshall: This is good, but two things to remember: 1. The gravitational cross section of Mars is probably less than 1.5 times its true cross section...
