Here we go again (?) - check out yahoo.com for a short article on 2003 QQ47. "Asteroid 2003 QQ47 will be closely monitored over the next two months. Its...
Minor planet 2003 OX7 was discovered on 2003 July 24 at Palomar. It was announced to be a new Martian Trojan, probably because the semimajor axis of its orbit,...
Jean Meeus
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Sep 2, 2003 5:22 pm
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... Will this rate an MPEC with revised osculating elements? B-) \Brian...
Brian Skiff
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Sep 2, 2003 6:16 pm
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Thankfully you will notice that we had managed to squash most of the hysteria in the UK press by lunchtime! Jay Tate The Spaceguard Centre ...
Spaceguard
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Sep 2, 2003 9:14 pm
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Alas, it made it to the CNN main page... <SIGH> Clear Skies, Brian Warner Author - "A Practical Guide to Lightcurve Photometry and Analysis" Palmer Divide...
LINEAR obtained some new observations of the asteroid today, which extends the data arc from 6.7 days to 9 days. We've just computed a new orbit solution, and ...
Ron Baalke
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Sep 2, 2003 10:44 pm
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The August issue of Scientific American magazine has an article about Brian Marsden. The full article online at the SciAm website. http://tinyurl.com/m2zi ......
Can everyone access the MPC site or is it just me. Over the last 3 days I have noticed that it is taking progresively longer to even open the home page - then...
Well I emailed the urls of the pages I had problems with to my ISP's technical help email and within 2 minutes had full and instant access to all the MPC site....
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov Asteroid 2003 QQ47's Potential Earth Impact in 2014 Ruled Out Paul W. Chodas and Steven R. Chesley NASA's Near Earth Object Program...
Ron Baalke
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Sep 3, 2003 10:14 pm
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From IAUC 8194: SATELLITES OF URANUS "...report the recovery of two inner Uranian satellites... in recent data from the High Resolution Channel of the Hubble...
Brian Skiff
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Sep 3, 2003 11:20 pm
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Following Brian's comment about oddities in an IAUC, here's one from the MPECs: From MPEC 2003-R18, recovery of a satellite of Neptune: 568 Mauna Kea....
Similarly the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak is colloquially referred to as "the 4-meter", but is actually a 150-inch = 3.8-meter, which bothers no one except...
Brian Skiff
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Sep 3, 2003 11:51 pm
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Brian Skiff wrote: "...Since this telescope attribution stuff is supposedly done quasi- automatically in the MPC/CBAT system, they probably need to build a ...
... Yes, things do get complex in a rapidly evolving metasystem. Why, I bet some sort of "complexity theory" needs to be developed to handle it all. Maybe...
Hi David-- I too am not able to access the MPCORB data with Internet Explorer which is recent problem. What did you send to your ISP that corrected this? Is...
Hi Steve, Mozilla gives the following message: 530-The response 'mozilla@...' is not valid 530- Please use your e-mail address as your password 530-...
Hi Steve, As another list member helpfully posted a week or two back, there is a mirror site that still works fine: http://www.astro.cz/mpcorb/ Not sure if...
Bill, I use IE6 and if you right click on the page then select Log in (only applies to ftp pages) then up comes a window with some options and fields to let...
... Just HEAT them, Bill (I take it you're not writing from the Southern Arizona desert...). ;-) --Joe Montani / Tucson PS Good eye, there, to catch those...
Howdy, Brian, To modify a line from a caption of one of Russell Porter's "cartoons" in one of the ATM books: "What's a mere ten centimeters, between friends?" ...
Hi all. Is it even possible to do any worthwhile astrometry with an 8 inch telescope system? I have to say, if I have to shell out 5000 bucks plus just to...
... Scott, no need to apologize. 5 years ago there was plenty of work that could be accomplished with a 20 cm telescope. Today, there is still some useful...
Sure you can do useful astrometry. Are you going to find faint new objects? Unlikely - especially since the surveys will be there first. However, there are...
Paris, 5 September 2003 European Space Agency Press Release N° 55-2003 EMBARGOED UNTIL 21:00 CEST Hubble assists Rosetta comet mission Results from the...
Ron Baalke
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Sep 5, 2003 3:30 pm
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Scott: What do you want to do and where are you starting from? Do you want discoveries? Do you want to chase NEOs to do follow up observation? Do you want to...