I just tried posting this directly to Spaceguard via their feedback page but my message did not appear to send so i thought I'd post the question here to see...
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Paolo Bacci
asa-scienza
Sep 9, 2012 12:05 pm
Hi all image animated asteroid 2012 QG42 from 104 http://tiny.cc/6pjakw backman ... -- ... Paolo Bacci B09 backman.altervista.org B33...
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alessandro odasso
alessandro_o...
Sep 9, 2012 2:33 pm
As the brightness seems to slightly decrease in the NE-SW direction, I think that this is likely to be a meteor trail, but I am not used to see them in DSS...
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alessandro odasso
alessandro_o...
Sep 9, 2012 7:24 pm
Image: Survey: SRCJ Field:0409 Plate:SB02693 Date:1976.8775 Time:10.22 Exp: 60 min This is a nice image for three reasons: 1 - In accordance with a SkyMorph...
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alessandro odasso
alessandro_o...
Sep 9, 2012 10:40 pm
One aspect that I did not stress clearly enough. The trail that crosses the whole image varies a dozen time its brightness and, by the way, the image I...
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olembeolembeolembe
olembeolembe...
Sep 10, 2012 12:54 pm
And if anybody is enjoying animations of 2012 QG42, here is mine! http://drianwalker.com/observatory.html Ian...
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walcom77
Sep 10, 2012 12:58 pm
Hi All We just updated our blog with some info & animation about the upcoming close approach of asteroid 2012 QC8: http://bit.ly/RDc2Hu Ciao, Ernesto Guido,...
Dear Patrick, Thank you for your question. As to concern the feedback page, you are completely right. If you are referring to the email address scn@..., it...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Sep 11, 2012 7:08 pm
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-284 Vesta in Dawn's Rear View Mirror Jet Propulsion Laboratory September 11, 2012 PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's...
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Patrick Wiggins
scubaskydive...
Sep 12, 2012 6:04 am
Anyone here know the jovian longitude of Monday's (10 September) suspected impact on Jupiter? Thank you, patrick 718...
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Patrick Wiggins
scubaskydive...
Sep 12, 2012 6:08 am
Sorry folks. No sooner did I hit send than I saw Sky & Telescope has the information on their web site: ...
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Patrick Wiggins
scubaskydive...
Sep 12, 2012 8:52 am
Hi Alan, ... How's about photometry and a movie? http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/2012QG42.JPG ...
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Tomas
scibuffcom
Sep 12, 2012 10:10 am
I'm fairly new to the photometry area so I thought I'd ask for some suggestions. From H21 we have 3 nights of data about 210 images in total with SNR on the...
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dfischer@...
skyweek
Sep 12, 2012 11:02 am
... The longest list of calculated transit times of the impact location I've seen is in ...
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P. Clay Sherrod
drclay2002
Sep 12, 2012 11:23 am
For photometric reductions there is only one nearly perfect tool: Brian Warner's Canopus software. Nothing quick and easy about the learning curve, but it is...
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Roger W. Sinnott
rwsinnott
Sep 12, 2012 12:22 pm
". . .just a nice bolide"? I'll say! It was magnitude +6 in telescopes, seen from 4.8 a.u. away. So if the same bolide flashed in our own atmosphere, 75km...
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gpobs
roy_tucker2000
Sep 12, 2012 12:43 pm
Don't get too carried away. The escape velocity of Jupiter is about five times that of earth so an object entering the Jovian atmosphere would have about 25...
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Brian Warner
brianw_mpo
Sep 12, 2012 2:28 pm
Hi Tomas, If you followed the full procedure in that paper, thus allowing for variations from image to image due to changing transparency, etc., the data might...
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Gerhard Dangl
gerhard.dangl
Sep 13, 2012 5:29 pm
Tomas, I am a user of Brian Warner's Canopus software. But I also own the book and the software AIP4WIN. And it works on my W7 64-bit system. Regards Gerhard ...
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Brian Warner
brianw_mpo
Sep 13, 2012 10:02 pm
Przemyslaw Bartczak provided some additional data from Sep 8 and 9. The results are still about 24.3 h. A revised combined lightcurve is at ...
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Pieter-Jan Dekelver
pieterjan87
Sep 13, 2012 11:30 pm
Hello, The past weekend was the perfect time to really test my new 10 Micron GM200HPS mount. It worked great! On the nights of 2012-09- 05/06, 06/07, 07/08,...
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Lance Benner
lance@...
Sep 14, 2012 1:09 am
Greetings Everyone, I want to inform you that we successfully detecte radar echoes from 2012 QG42 at Goldstone on September 13. The astrometry that many of...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
Sep 14, 2012 2:14 pm
Hi folks, This object, currently on NEOCP, looks as if it has good odds of being a close approacher. There are still distant orbits for it, but they...
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walcom77
Sep 14, 2012 2:58 pm
Dear Bill ... We just recovered it from Faulkes Telescope North (F65). You are in cc in the astrometry batch sent to the mpc. Ciao, Ernesto Guido, Nick Howes,...
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Bill J Gray
feliks314159
Sep 14, 2012 3:30 pm
... Thank you; that nails it down a bit... and makes it much less "interesting" than I'd hoped; no close approach seems likely. I'd forgotten about (F65)...
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Richard Miles
gallileo99uk
Sep 14, 2012 4:15 pm
The British Astronomical Association is holding its first-ever joint section meeting of the Comet Section / Asteroids and Remote Planets Section between ...
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Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Sep 15, 2012 1:29 pm
The NEOCP may be having trouble automatically finding an orbit solution that works with the observations we submitted, based on the fact that our observations...
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Michal Kusiak
komeciarz
Sep 16, 2012 1:05 am
Dear All, Â Our observatory (D03) posted a measurements to the MPC with two-nighter observations for our candidate ZOKU164. Object have got 85 points on NEO...
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Jaime Nomen
jnt20749
Sep 16, 2012 1:56 am
Stupid thing but... Have you check if there is any error on the subject text? should be -> NEO CANDIDATE Sometimes I made some unnoticed typo there... and...
