... Grunsfeld says at 0:41:48 in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5rsJwsyni4 that "we are also hoping to reactivate" WISE, "bring that back to life, it's...
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Paolo Bacci
asa-scienza
12:57 am
Photometric observations of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) (163249) 2002 GT were made in 2013 June 16-17, before the object's close approach to Earth,...
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Francesco Manca
obs.sormano@...
Jun 18, 2013 8:12 pm
Dear All, I wish to point out the close encounter of 2011 BT15 reobserved at 695 Kitt Peak Obs. this month. I have recomputed the orbit with new observations...
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Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Jun 18, 2013 7:29 pm
... The referenced slide has a title that calls the reactivation of NEOWISE an "Enhancement Option". Not quite the same thing as a definitive "will be...
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skyweek
Jun 18, 2013 5:07 pm
More factoids that came out during today's lengthy briefing: a) The WISE IR satellie will be reactived to continue with NEOWISE asteroid observations: ...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 18, 2013 4:36 pm
June 18, 2013 Sarah Ramsey/Rachel Kraft Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1694/1100 sarah.ramsey@... / rachel.h.kraft@... RELEASE: 13-188 NASA...
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Edwin Goffin
Edwin.Goffin@...
Jun 15, 2013 6:00 pm
Gerhard, ... Basically, the rms depends on the accuracy of the observations (after re-reduction with modern star catalogues) and the weights applied. The old ...
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Steve McCluskey
steve648750
Jun 15, 2013 5:09 pm
Jim Lattis and I express our thanks for all the helpful replies to this question, both on the list and in direct messages. Steve McCluskey...
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Stefano Valentini
winastrometry
Jun 15, 2013 3:11 pm
Element of (224) Oceana for 1890-feb-5 can be found here: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1889AN....123..249O Stefano Valentini [Non-text portions of this...
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Stefano Valentini
winastrometry
Jun 15, 2013 3:09 pm
Element of (224) Oceana for 1890-feb-5 can be found here: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1889AN....123..249O Stefano Valentini ... From: Steve McCluskey To:...
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Edwin Goffin
Edwin.Goffin@...
Jun 15, 2013 2:43 pm
... There is/was an MPC project to re-reduce old astrometric observations. I think they work on a per-publication base. What the present status is, I don't...
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Gerhard Hahn
gerhard.hahn
Jun 15, 2013 1:31 pm
Hi Ed and Dave, Following the recent email exchange here on MPML on the historical astrometric observations of asteroid (224), I was wondering, too, that there...
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Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Jun 15, 2013 12:34 pm
... I was under the impression that the MPC put significant effort into getting astrometry from the "open literature" into their database. I wouldn't have...
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Edwin Goffin
Edwin.Goffin@...
Jun 15, 2013 12:19 pm
... In what is usually called the "open literature", i.e. in AN, BA, JO, Publ. USNO ... E....
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Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Jun 15, 2013 8:13 am
... The 1899 Mar 03 observation with the discovery asterisk is the discovery observation for 1899 EA, which is one of two provisional designations attached to...
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Edwin Goffin
Edwin.Goffin@...
Jun 15, 2013 6:28 am
Minor planet 224 Oceana was discovered on 30 March 1882 (by J. Palisa in Vienna), not in 1899! There are 99 observations from discovery up to 30 Sep 1922 (the...
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Brian Skiff
bas@...
Jun 15, 2013 6:02 am
If you are wanting to recover the contemporaenous state of things, I would think first of looking in the famous Leuschner monograph from 1935. This Lick ...
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Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Jun 15, 2013 1:35 am
] A teacher planning an astronomy class project has asked how he might ] obtain orbital elements determined for asteroid 224 Oceana as they ] were known before...
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Steve McCluskey
steve648750
Jun 15, 2013 12:15 am
I'm forwarding this note from Jim Lattis, which he recently posted on the History of Astronomy Discussion List (HASTRO-L). Steve McCluskey A teacher planning...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 14, 2013 11:01 pm
June 14, 2013 Allard Beutel/Sarah Ramsey Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1600/1694 allard.beutel@... / sarah.ramsey@... MEDIA ADVISORY: M13-096 NASA...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 14, 2013 10:59 pm
June 14, 2013 J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-5241 j.d.harrington@... Christina Thompson Northrop Grumman Corp., Redondo Beach, Calif. ...
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Tomas
scibuffcom
Jun 14, 2013 5:19 pm
This is most likely due to how provisional designations (and their observations) of the same object are linked to the principal....
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varyonyx
Jun 13, 2013 3:09 pm
Hello Bert, thanks you for the information!. I tried a db-query with 47973. This lists all observerations :) Good to know :O ;) Best regards Alex (VectorSCOPE)...
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Bert Stevens
whocares88012
Jun 13, 2013 2:15 pm
Alex, Use the minor planet number (in this case 47973), and you will get all the observations. If you use the other designations, you will not get them all. ...
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varyonyx
Jun 13, 2013 8:04 am
Hello, i´m studying the nice deeplink information page about objects provided by the MPC. I tried (as an example) ...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jun 12, 2013 6:14 pm
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/initiative/asteroid-ideas.html Asteroid Initiative Industry & Partner Day 05.28.2013 Event: NASA's Asteroid...
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Terry
terry_flower
Jun 12, 2013 1:27 am
I was on Grand Bahamas Island, West End, and the sky was crystal clear but I did not see any meteors from 0830 - 0900 UT Sent from my iPad...
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Matson, Robert D.
rdotdaneelol...
Jun 11, 2013 10:56 pm
It looks like the Parker, AZ, all-sky camera might have captured one gamma Delphinid @ 08:55:53: http://skysentinel.nmsu.edu/allsky/viewer/748020 --Rob...
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Matson, Robert D.
rdotdaneelol...
Jun 11, 2013 8:37 pm
I saw no gamma Delphinids from southern California from 08:00-08:40 UT. (Skies were partly clouds, but seeing dark enough to see the Milky Way.) Today I've...
