Thanks to those who have responded to my beginner questions. The MPC site is providing a wealth of information, and has made me more determined than ever to...
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DWest61506@...
Nov 1, 2002 10:52 am
Paul wrote: <CCDSoft automatically creates a correctly formatted text file for submission to the MPC. Is it okay to attach this text file to an email - or is...
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Paul Luckas
luckas@...
Nov 1, 2002 2:40 pm
... images with coordinated universal time (UTC)" on the camera setup tab. Over here on the East Coast we are currently 11 hours ahead of UTC, so there is a...
... I'm of the understanding that if you use Auto Dark subtract, the first image, without the dark subtracted, has the correct time stamp. The first image that...
I've received nearly 30 responses from the Astrometrica and MPML to my offer yesterday to make copies of the USNO A2 catalog, so looks like it's go ahead....
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Jean-Luc Margot
margot@...
Nov 1, 2002 8:06 pm
All, Goldstone radar astrometry has been used to show that 2002 SY50 cannot be linked with Hermes. The astrometry should appear shortly on the usual channels....
Hi Lawrence, Thank you. I think I am a fairly good observer on the visual acuity side of things, but I can not emphasize enough that I had great seeing that...
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Jean-Luc Margot
margot@...
Nov 1, 2002 9:06 pm
All, The text at http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~margot/NEAs/2002SY50 has been removed due to concerns about the content by team members. Will repost when we sort...
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David Tholen
tholen@...
Nov 1, 2002 10:59 pm
... And the elevation. Should be more than adequate, especially with Selective Availability turned off, as it has been for something like three years now....
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David Tholen
tholen@...
Nov 1, 2002 11:33 pm
... The August prediscovery positions from NEAT nearly doubled the arc and really sharpened the optical-only orbit solution to the point that after I failed to...
Blank I have tried to email Robert Burns to arrange getting a copy of the 11-cd USNO catalog, but in replying to his posting here on the list, the reply...
... I'd love to email him, but I think he died about 200 years ago in Scotland. Probably never got an e-mail address. [sorry, couldn't resist with a name like...
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Paulo Holvorcem
holvorcem@...
Nov 2, 2002 3:33 pm
... It doesn't look like a tumbling satellite, since the wings one one exposure overlap the object's image on the previous exposure. It doesn't look like an...
... I'd have to agree with Paulo's assessment here. Certainly does look like the original discovery plates of SL9. Looks like the big guns had better do some...
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gareth@...
Nov 2, 2002 3:55 pm
... Probably already completely lost. While the squashed comet idea is attractive, I prefer the flaw/reflection/artificial-object theory. ... Gareth V....
... Well, since the season is now officially open being past Halloween, :-), how about, the original "Peace on Earth to men of good will." Sorry, I can never...
BlankSorry to keep this off topic mystery going for so long, but something has died.......... As seen below, I have once again received a bounce of my...
... Bill can probably recreate the environment of these plates without too much trouble and confirm if they are indeed reflections. Wouldn't a flaw show up ...
... That's what I too wrote Bill privately. Tha PA of the object (not its motion but its orientation) changes in respect to the stars. So I guess it origins ...
... <snip> ... How about a debris stream from CONTOUR? LG...
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Paulo Holvorcem
holvorcem@...
Nov 2, 2002 7:18 pm
... The systematic drift of the image centers seems superficially consistent with W000FF being a reflection from bright stars near the edge of the field. To...
Bill is having some posting problems from Kitt Peak and asked me to post this for him RAK ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There is a bright new...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Nov 2, 2002 9:23 pm
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Perry
perrycn@...
Nov 3, 2002 5:47 am
... Alain, About twenty five years ago I met Clyde Tombaugh at a national convention of the Astronomical League, the umbrella organization for local amateur ...
I've been meaning to ask this for some time, since Gareth brought it up here it is. Can someone please explain how one should go about getting a DISCSTATUS ...
BlankIf you are reading this Mr. Burns, please send me an offline response to moon@... as I keep getting the following when I attempt to email you: ...
Has anyone heard any news recently on the Newton program by Marc Murison? ( http://arnold.usno.navy.mil/Newton/index.html ) From the screenshots it looks like...
I'm also looking for a copy of a paper by J.H Bartlett "The restricted problem of three bodies" which appears in Copenhagen Observatory Bulletin No. 179...
There appear to be no observations of this object that since Rob McNaught's on Oct 16. Is nobody trying for the occasional one, or just not passing them on to...
