About an hour ago, the launch of the MESSENGER spacecraft to Mercury was scrubbed due to a strengthening tropical depression over and just northeast of the...
David Dunham
dunham@...
Aug 2, 2004 7:32 am
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a new update to the table on physical properties of NEOs in Asteroids III paper by Binzel, R.P. et al. (2002) in "Asteroids III" (Eds. W.F.Bottke et al.), ...
Gerhard Hahn
Gerhard.Hahn@...
Aug 2, 2004 2:06 pm
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I am looking for a current email address for Jim Roe if any has one they could send me I would appreciate it Thanks David Dixon...
In you routinely ignore the ACK messages you receive from the Minor Planet Center, please start paying closer attention to them! Starting at around 17:30 EDT...
Meteorite seen over southern North Island - New Zealand 03 August 2004 A meteorite which streaked across the lower North Island sky in the early hours of this...
Darren McManaway (DSL...
darrenm@...
Aug 3, 2004 12:01 am
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The correct ephemeris for MESSENGER for tonight's (Aug. 3rd UT) launch was placed on the JPL Horizons phemeris generator Web site at ...
David Dunham
dunham@...
Aug 3, 2004 4:56 am
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Hi list, in case some may have not noticed yet, 2004 FS101 is an interesting asteroidal object which made it on the MPCs "Other unusual objects" page quite...
MESSENGER launched successfully from the Cape half an hour ago, as many of you may already know from the NASA Webcasts. The spacecraft and upper stages are now...
David Dunham
dunham@...
Aug 3, 2004 7:01 am
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I note the two other recent 'Damocloids' also have short arcs: 2004 HV60 and 2004 NN8. \Brian...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 3, 2004 7:11 am
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... But neither has as short an arc or as few observations as 2004 FS101. Note that we observed both objects. 2004 HV60 had a tail and was redesignated as...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Aug 3, 2004 8:30 am
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... 8 d arc? Must be some prediscovery positions. The latest MPU.ARC file returns only 7 observations on 2 nights separated by 3 days. The four March 23...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Aug 3, 2004 9:27 am
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... yes, right. There are three additional observations of Mar. 18, by Spacewatch. ... The predicovery observations seem to have changed the orbit from a ...
Everything is fine with MESSENGER, now just past its highest altitude above the horizon in western North America; telemetry with the spacecraft is good and...
David Dunham
dunham@...
Aug 3, 2004 9:55 am
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MESSENGER is about 0.6 deg. away from its nominal trajectory, as observed from the Goldstone DSN tracking station, so you need to scan a rather larger area...
David Dunham
dunham@...
Aug 3, 2004 10:20 am
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The Navigation Team has calculated the following offsets for 10:45 UT for the Goldstone tracking station in southern California; the corrections should be...
David Dunham
dunham@...
Aug 3, 2004 10:55 am
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Thanks ... From: Robert Perry <perrybcn@...> To: ddixon@... Sent: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 08:09:25 -0500 Subject: Jim Roe's email address...
... file ... four ... discovery ... are ... how ... All the observations *are* in the latest MPU.ARC file. I suspect that you are looking in the latest...
... Bizarre. I downloaded the latest MPU.ARC file last night, selected the "complete through the last mid-month MPS batch", right after I learned that FS101...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Aug 3, 2004 9:33 pm
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... No idea. I will say that the MPU.ARC file on the U**x webserver is dated 2004-Aug-01 04:35 (and that is a local time stamp, so the UT time is 2004-Aug-01...
... Yet another download returned the complete file this time, so I guess it's time to submit my results for publication in the Journal of Irreproducible...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Aug 4, 2004 1:19 am
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... That's pretty much the range of solutions contained in the uncertainty maps available for this object in the MPES. Gareth...
A new orbit for MESSENGER is available, but at an FTP site that I can't reach until I get help from others tomorrow morning. However, the spacecraft is now...
David Dunham
dunham@...
Aug 4, 2004 3:59 am
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The latest trajectory for MESSENGER, orbit solution #3 computed by the Nav team, was set up on the JPL Horizons ephemeris generator Web site 1.7 hours ago, at...
David Dunham
dunham@...
Aug 5, 2004 12:44 am
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Joe Dellinger and I tried imaging the MESSENGER spacecraft last night (Aug 4.16 UT); I just finished stacking the images, and I believe we suceeded. I've made...
At least locally we are now approching a month without a really clear night. I seem to remember a anticloud ritual mentioned on MPML a couple of years ago. It...
dd>At least locally we are now approching a month without a really clear night. I seem to remember a anticloud ritual mentioned on MPML a couple of years ago....
michel festou
festou@...
Aug 6, 2004 8:36 am
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Dear Phil, we have observed the NEA 2000PH5 and obtained the lightcurve that looks like as in July 2001 apparition. Chees, Fiodor ...
