An info on Ondrejov and Kharkiv lightcurve results for 1999 LF6, for those who plan to target it during this Fall. ... Indeed, it is a slow rotator. Here is...
This book has already been reviewed by people with much greater knowledge of the subject than me (namely, Richard Binzel and Richard Miles). However, I am...
Thanks for the background on Lagerkvist efforts. If Spitzer can't do it next week, they want to try again at another scheduling opportunity in six months...
Almost certainly it was Powell Observatory Don mentioned. Here is what he gave in an earlier message naming observers who have contributed observations: (649)...
A complete list of Genesis observation sites is at http://home.gwi.net/~pluto/mpecs/genesis.htm#stations The list of which observatories got data and where...
2003 VB12 (the S-word) has finally been numbered and now its discoverers have the *privilege* to propose a name. Let's hope they do this fast, because if...
Actually, I'm surprised the highest number isn't greater. I was guessing that we'd hit 100,000. This latest jump is only 5K or more over the last round. Past...
I think the new format has to be in place and use or there will be no way to submit observations for an object above 99999. ... From: "Brian Warner"...
... no way to ... We're working on the few remaining problems for implementing the new format. Note, however, that the SAN device and new server that I was...
Easy solution: everybody stop looking! <g> I know, there are enough out there that are close enough to numbering that we'd hit 100000 regardless. Who'd of...
Just checking, though there hasn't been anything to make me think otherwise: is everything OK at Arecibo after Frances grazed north? I was looking at the...
... As I recall, the 1980 EMP volume had 2095 numbered asteroids. That was the first volume to follow the IAU recommendation that all orbits be integrated to...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Sep 2, 2004 9:26 pm
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Have any particular objects been earmarked or proposed to receive this designation? One possibility could be 2001 QR322, the first and still only known Neptune...
... Objects are numbered in designation order in each full MPC batch. We have the ability to do the numbering in another order (and has been done on occasion...
... Exact information about the re-entry at URL below. Mag -9 daylight fireball, for observers in Eastern Oregon and extreme northern Nevada!! 15:53 UT...
Hello MPML, Mike Shepard and his collaborators detected a small (relatively to the primary) satellite of 2002 CE26 with the Arecibo radar. It is one of the...
Given the announcement made in IAU Circular No. 8267, I would expect 2004 A1 to have a name. Should it be "Skiff" or "Skiff-Miller" or else, I am unsure....
michel festou
festou@...
Sep 4, 2004 10:52 am
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... OK, when it is going to end these "soap opera", now in September? I don’t like the idea of *press releases announcing names* as future of the asteroids...
Michzl Festou asks why comet P/2004 A1 is still unnamed. Surprisingly, the first comet of 2003 is still unnamed, too, but the explanation is given by Daniel...
Jean Meeus
JMeeus@...
Sep 4, 2004 1:04 pm
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... No. According to private correspondence some weeks ago, the CSBN cannot agree on a name out of three possibilities. The info was "we are working on that...
MPML folks, ... I fully agree! We have quite a few designations without a number yet here at 611. If this 2003 VB12 story unfolds in the way I guess, you all...
... ... and the alternative would be some international asteroid registry. But on the other hand, if CSBN this time again subsequently ratifies NASA's naming...
Reiner: I think I remember correctly in both cases (50000) and 2003 VB12 the agencies violating IAU protocol were a university and a PI that was working under...
... It is not important which national space agency was involved. It could have been any other too. On the other side, NASA is not as innocent as you might...
... Probably the best answer would be that the committee members pay attention to the discussion on this list and enforce their own rules. Amateurs get but one...
If just after 2003 VB12 has received a number, a proposal for this *already very known on the media name*, is /or /has already been submitted and this name is...
