Dear friends and colleagues! During the last two days of intensive work, I have updated my web page http://sajri.astronomy.cz/asteroidgroups/groups.htm News in...
Here in NM it looks like the MPC is having a problem that started sometime around May 1.2 none of the files MPCORB, data of last obs, MPECs have updated since ...
This from the MPC Status Page a few moments ago: DOU MPEC "2005 May 1: 12:20. Last night's DOU MPEC has been abandoned. Any files that get updated as a result...
Dear Observers, I have received a request from Mike Shepard for lightcurve observations of 785 Zwetana. Preliminary radar returns show a factor-of-ten...
Alan, I have lightcurve data on 785 Zwetana taken between April 5th and April 10th, 2005, and our curve looks different from the one published by Dotto et al....
I also started with Zwetana as my first light curve target. Not a best one for a beginner and, so far, I have data only for some 35 minutes. Clouds, etc. Not...
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~jewitt/saturn2005.html TWELVE NEW MOONS FOR SATURN David Jewitt May 3, 2005 SUMMARY Minor Planet Electronic Circular MPEC J13 today...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
May 3, 2005 11:52 pm
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John -- Truly mysterious. Would you be willing to send me a set of 4? I'd like to see the phenomenon... -- Bob...
Hello, Observations made by H. Correia at St-Michel l'Observatoire, Haute-Provence, France, show that the period of about 8h is valid, and that the amplitude...
Raoul Behrend
Raoul.Behrend@...
May 4, 2005 6:53 am
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We were trying to update our directory of objects for the week and found that the NEA.dat file (as well as several others...PHAS, etc.) for May 4 contains "0...
MPC Status Page: "2005 May 4: 18:00. A user reported that the NEA.DAT and NEAcr.DAT files accessible in MPCORB are blank. The reasons for this are unclear: we...
Hello, All, I Observed 785 Zwetana last night for about 6.25 hours, alternating V and R filters. The period is consistent with about 8.5 hours, the amplitude...
Greetings, it looks like there is more and more data available on 785 Zwetana. My data set seems to agree well with the data that Raoul and his co-workers have...
Hi All, I'd be happy to compare the lightcurve and radar data once the lightcurves are compiled and referenced to some standard epoch. In addition, we've...
Hello, A second long run on (785) Swetana was done by Horacio Correia, St-Michel l'Observatoire, Haute-Provence, France. B V R and I images obtained with the...
Raoul Behrend
Raoul.Behrend@...
May 5, 2005 4:59 pm
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Dear Raoul, Horacio, et al., Clearly the solution will be strengthened by combining the European data with the American data to get continuous full coverage of...
This has been an interesting thread (the initial message is below). This note reports my own results. The sequence showed one asteroid, plus at least several...
Dear Alan, hello All, I just received the data by Michael Fauerbach. Combined with the european data, the following results are determined: - Period:...
Raoul Behrend
Raoul.Behrend@...
May 5, 2005 5:51 pm
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
May 6, 2005 6:37 pm
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Anyone able to ID this FMO? Just picked it up. The scope is still tracking it. Gareth replied it is geocentric but he has no ID. I'd hate to lose it in case it...
Hi Reiner, ... I don't find a matching ID either. It seems very unlikely to be manmade given the combination of (relatively) large implied distance and yet...
... No match Reiner, checked out the known "classified" list, and the EOSSJ objects. and HORizon. the EOSJ page doesnt have numbers for WIND at the moment, so...
In case anyone wants to join tracking this critter, here is the follow-up data we got so far. Thanks Bill, Tony, Raoul and Matt for the quick private replies. ...
... Sorry Rob, I meant "Rob" not "Matt". ... BTW, just in case anyone wondered why it suddenly got darker. I switched to bin2 to get the images transferred...
Hi Reiner, With your original observations included, I get the following orbit. It is indeed a high-flier, though not quite up there with IMP-8. Anyone...
... I think this is GEOTAIL. Mainly because of the similarity in semi-major axis and eccentricity. The last elset I have via Goddard from the Japanese person...
I'm curious as to why Gareth said it's a geocentric object. A heliocentric orbit is certainly possible, though what I'm getting is very Earth-like and fairly...
