Help Astronomers Use an Asteroid to Calculate the Size of the Solar System This week, there will be a faint new object in the night sky: the asteroid
433 Eros....
Goodness, there is a lot of misleading information in this posting. Perhaps as a student teaching assignment this might be worth to "calculate the size of the...
Astronomers without Borders was something that came out of the International Year of Astronomy. I came across them last year in the context of solar...
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Robert Warren
cometman_75@...
Feb 1, 2012 1:34 pm
At first glance it looks as if this so called 'new' attempt at determining the size of the solar system is inaccurate. After all using 433Eros for such a task...
I agree...usually "without borders" or "friends of...." also comes with a personal agenda attached. The stated project _could_ be used as a teaching project,...
I have taught in many branches of sciences for nearly 40 years now; I agree with your summary of this, BUT I do not agree that providing dated and inaccurate...
Hi Clay, I guess the origin of this student / amateur astronomer exercise comes from the following Web page. In it this worldwide effort is specifically ...
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Robert Warren
cometman_75@...
Feb 1, 2012 1:58 pm
Sirs,I believe that we are in agreement that this is a training exercise. And I bow to the expertise of those who have been teachers for any number of years....
Eek, just see this thread ... which proves that really no good deed goes unpunished. Folks, the Eros Parallax Project is experimental astronomy *history*, the...
folks... ... I'm squarely with Daniel on this. please go to the project website to find out more. it seems that only a few MPML members actually checked it...
Hello all, I'd give these folks a break. Looking at the original version of this at http://transitofvenus.nl/wp/getting-involved/eros-and-the-solar-parallax/ ...
We understand all this and believe me I am all for educational aspects in the science of astronomy.....I teach it daily. My objection is the wording of the...
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Mark Trueblood
mtrueblood@...
Feb 1, 2012 3:59 pm
Clay suggested I post my private message to him on MPML. I am posting an excerpt, since certain portions I still consider private. Edits are indicated by...
This thread has now come to the attention of the president of Astronomers without Borders who has asked me to post this clarification - as this has *nothing*...
... I would like to second this request. Please honor the request to take this off list. I believe we have had enough discussion on the inaccuracies of the...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Feb 1, 2012 6:02 pm
Feb. 01, 2012 David E. Steitz Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1730 david.steitz@... RELEASE: 12-039 NASA RECEIVES FINAL NRC REPORT ON SPACE TECHNOLOGY...
Greetings! On-line registration for the 2012 SAS/AAVSO Symposium is now open. The dates are May 22-24, 2012, at the Northwoods Resort in Big Bear Lake, CA. ...
The MPC's NEO Confirmation Page is following the provisional object TC3D03F. Their nominal orbit and my own work with Find_Orb, from 23 observations over 17.0...
Hi Tomas, This is another (thus far unidentified, though spotted several times over the last couple of years) piece of space junk first tracked back in July...
... This identification and the previous one argue (again) for including artificial satellite observations in the regular MPC database, where the linking can...
Dear Observers, In February 2012, the binary asteroid (22) Kalliope will reach one of its annual equinoxes. As a consequence, the orbit plane of its small...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Feb 3, 2012 10:58 pm
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/02feb_rosetta/ Mission to Land on a Comet NASA Science News February 2, 2012 Europe's Rosetta...
Fred, Thank you for posting this information. I have an interest in photometry. To date all my efforts have been associated with large magnitude changes. My...
Hi Christopher, ... I can't speak for MPC, obviously. But I don't _think_ this tends to cause a great deal of grief. There are a few high-fliers that get...
We just have written the corresponding report about the discovery circumstances of this new comet C/2012 B3 (La Sagra). Thanks a lot to the observers who...
If anyone has a chance, 2012 BE77 needs to be reobserved before it gets too faint. There is a discrepancy between my (unpublished) observations and those of...
Hi! Congratulations on discovering the new comet!! Obs.Paus B49 ... From: Jaime Nomen To: 'MPML' Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 3:39 AM Subject: {MPML} C/2012...
