WMAP has been added to the list of satellites at the MPC's site at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/SpaceJunk/SpaceJunk.html Thanks are due to Dale Fink the...
Tony Beresford
dberesford@...
Oct 1, 2003 4:54 pm
10710
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031001.html Astronomy Picture of the Day A Daytime Fireball Over South Wales Credit & Copyright: Jon Burnett October 1, 2003...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Oct 1, 2003 4:55 pm
10711
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/satellites/uranus2003.html New Satellite of Uranus S/2001 U2 University of Hawaii October 1, 2003 [Image] Figure 1:...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Oct 1, 2003 6:10 pm
10712
Thanks to all for setting me straight. I'd totally forgotten about 2003 CP20 -- a severe memory lapse! -- Roger...
Roger W. Sinnott
rsinnott@...
Oct 1, 2003 9:00 pm
10713
A few months back 2003 OX7 was listed briefly as a Mars Trojan and then better orbits showed it makes a close approach to Mars and it was delisted, however its...
Andrew Walker wrote: < A few months back 2003 OX7 was listed briefly as a Mars Trojan < and then better orbits showed it makes a close approach to < Mars and...
Jean Meeus
JMeeus@...
Oct 2, 2003 8:23 am
10715
Tony and list, ... COD 620 OBS S. Sanchez, R. Stoss, J. Nomen MEA S. Sanchez, R. Stoss, J. Nomen TEL 0.30-m f/9 Schmidt-Cassegrain + CCD NET UCAC-2 ACK WMAP ...
... As you see from above magnitude estimates, its brightness ... Reiner, the space craft axis of symmetry is pointed at an angle of 22.5 degrees to the...
Tony Beresford
dberesford@...
Oct 3, 2003 5:26 am
10717
About 2003 OX7 Alan wrote: < Horseshoe orbit? These are not stable, but probably nothing is for long in < Earth or Mars Trojan space. No, an object in a...
Jean Meeus
JMeeus@...
Oct 3, 2003 6:50 am
10718
Meteorite Hits House In Louisiana On September 23, 2003, a meteorite fell out of the sky and hit a house in New Orleans, Louisiana. An article about the...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Oct 3, 2003 3:34 pm
10719
... Just to clarify, The PinPoint package used by Cash is not customized, it is the standard PinPoint V4 Public Beta which was released for general testing ...
I apologize if I am scooping a public announcement on this list... Ref Ted Bowell's "Interesting LONEOS Discovery" post, this is 2003 SQ222 and is being...
... The 1972 daytime fireball caught on video tape was even closer - it passed through the Earth's upper atmosphere before returning to space. Then, of...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Oct 3, 2003 5:02 pm
10722
... For our close approach "records", we've always said that the object was the closest or smallest objects observed outside of the atmosphere. Jim. Jim Scotti...
The phrasing we're using is that it's the closest object _for_which_ _an_orbit_has_been_determined_. Spacewatch has found closer stuff, but these weren't...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Oct 3, 2003 6:26 pm
10724
... It's all but impossible to get uniform agreement on any wording. One can claim that an orbit was determined for the 1972 grazing bolide, or for Lost City...
Except that orbits have been determined for a number of bolides like the 1972 fireball, however approximate those orbits may be.... "reliable orbits" might be...
... That's pretty much what I said when US News called me earlier today: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/nycu/tech/nextnews/nexthome.htm Ron Baalke...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Oct 3, 2003 6:55 pm
10727
Just a bit of trivia but the astrometry from Sep 29 shows that even though 2003 SQ222 was moving east to west, the second set of 699 positions actually start...
... The discovery images are nice trails. Did PinPoint detect these trails automatically? What has been measured, the start and end or the centroid? If the...
October 3, 2003 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE contact: Steele Wotkyns public relations manager Lowell Observatory (928) 774-3358 ext. 232 Asteroid Whizzes Very...
E. L. G. Bowell
Edward.Bowell@...
Oct 3, 2003 8:45 pm
10730
Bob, your software assists in carreer guidance as well? You are amazing. -Walt :-) ... From: E. L. G. Bowell [mailto:Edward.Bowell@...] Sent: Friday,...
Walt Cooney
waltc@...
Oct 3, 2003 9:02 pm
10731
... Interesting that Lowell isn't even mentioned... -- Richard Kowalski...
Oh dear! That's what happens when one puts together a press release. I wonder how many more idiocies there are. Let me publicly apologize to Bob Denny. We'll...
E. L. G. Bowell
Edward.Bowell@...
Oct 3, 2003 9:50 pm
10733
... Heh, the above is a career-guidance system, not an astrometric system :-) http://PinPoint.DC3.com/ -- Bob...
It's ridiculous. Not to cast any bad light on Ron B... this is typical of news reporters in a hurry (which they all are). I've been bit by this effect a few...
All, Our Arecibo radar observations of 2003 SS84 show that it is a binary system. This is the smallest system we've sent yet: the primary is not more than 150m...
nolan@...
Oct 5, 2003 2:26 am
10738
New elements for 2003 SC220 are given in MPEC 2003-T21 (Oct. 5). Although these elements are based on a 3-day arc only, it now seems certain that the object is...
