Sorry a little off topic here; did anyone catch Dave Letterman making a joke about the near miss of 2004AS1 last night? Not sure if his show reaches outside of...
Scott, Letterman increased the diameter of 2004 AS1 from 30 meters to 30 miles. If we stopped making mistakes like that over here, more of NASA's spacecraft...
David Healy
healydave@...
Mar 2, 2004 5:01 pm
11780
After watching the landing of Spirit and Opportunity I'd have to say they are definitely on target - now back to asteroids.. ;-)...
Hello, I don't seem to be having a lot of luck sending messages to the MPC. Is it just me or are others getting messages bounced back also? Best regards, - Roy...
A nice opportunity exists for European observers to catch 2004 DZ61 passing near the face on spiral galaxy NGC 4535 tonight, March 4. 2004 DZ61 has a very...
Another article on 2004AS1 has appeared, this time by Michael D. Lemonick in Time Magazine March 8, 2004. Mention is made of Timothy Spahr, an unnamed "German...
"................. and "Next time, Spahr won't be depending on a sharp-eyed amateur".....TIME magazine What a shame; if this is intended to be a slam on the...
... I think it's just routine journalism- they want to have controversial sounding sentences in there whenever possible. ... I've noticed that stories of...
Just replied a couple of hours ago but the message didn't show up. So here again: ... amateur ... line. ... Before blaming Tim or the journalist it would be...
The article is available online at <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040308- 596132,00.html>. -John ... Lemonick in ... Clark Chapman, ... ...
Now that NASA is authorized to pay asteroid hunters for their efforts, I thought you might be interested in some of the fantastic results of some users from...
Hello Bob, ... ... and tonight between 18 UT (05.03.2004) and 03 UT (06.03.2004) (45710) will cross just in front of the core of NGC 4535. Clear skies Bernd ...
Dear list members, Here is a suggestion from one of our users about the New NASA plan to make awards for asteroid research. While Robert proposes a great...
I subscribe to S&T's astro-alert service for asteroids, organized by S&T editor and MPML member Roger Sinnott. I just got an email allegedly from them, with a...
... I have informed Roger about it, because I too got it seven hours ago. He was already aware of it and working on it. I don't think it had a virus in the zip...
I got the same e-mail, supposedly from S & T Astro Alert. My Norton anti-virus scan determined that the message was "infected." Unable to repair it, the...
David Healy
healydave@...
Mar 6, 2004 4:55 am
11797
My ISP quarantined the message saying the attachment contains a virus. Patrick...
... Amost certainly it's NAV designation W32.Beagle.J@mm. This one came out March 2 and was put on the virus definitions on March 3, but slightly too late to...
Hi folks, I've received a few copies of this virus, and... I gotta wonder... _why_ would anyone open this thing? It's about as blatantly virus-like as one...
For those of you who have not seen this as yet. Note that at this time, it appears that only U.S. Citizens are eligible. I think Congress will pass this....
To Anyone, I am new to this list. I am also new to the study of minor planets. To help educate myself, I have obtained a number of books on the subject. But...
Robert Warren
cometman_75@...
Mar 6, 2004 4:12 pm
11803
Hi Bill... This file does indeed have to be opened to get into your system. It has really seen a dramatic increase in postings just the past few days and it...
Hello all: When I capture the asteroid 2004 CH52 I thought that it was a AMOR because in the Minor Planet Ephemeris Service: Query Results..... it is a "Neo"...
Bill and All, I believe it is the sheer number of variants that have been released and our dependence on our anti-virus software (complacency?) have helped in...
Here's a reply from Roger Sinnott. -John ... _________________________________________________________________ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar...
Folks, I'm glad a lot of MPML members were suspicious when they got this strange message. (Several of us at S&T received it too.) I haven't sent out an...
Roger W. Sinnott
rsinnott@...
Mar 6, 2004 5:43 pm
11808
... "No entries found" on AstDys elements file, nor on MPC elements file. It appears not to be a cataloged object (NEO or otherwise) at either site. ...
