... If the discoverer consider it a planet, they would probably report to WGPSN and not to CSBN. Otherwise it would be not too clever since they somehow...
... I can agree with that. Can anybody explain how our understanding of the Solar System will be improved by the adoption of a formal definition that will...
... I'd love to have a go at answering this, especially since the question quotes me. However, I understand the group's moderator has called an end to the...
< 3. There is (625) Xenia and the guideline (well, at least < it existed in the past) that names with the same < sounding are not allowed. However, there...
Jean Meeus
JMeeus@...
Aug 1, 2005 9:18 am
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Xena has to be an internal name, looking at the Hubble schedule posted earlier FY9 is code named Santa :) Tommy tgrav@... http://homepage.mac.com/tgrav/...
... Imagine that: besides finding an object larger than Pluto, they also found an object at a temperature below absolute zero! Gosh, I'll bet they'll win a ...
... Perhaps not that interesting, but are all of these objects with internal K-designations at the end of the Phase-2 formatted listing already officially...
... The pdf at http://www.stsci.edu/observing/phase2-public/10545.pdf lists a few other objects without official designations: 17 (19) OBJ-KBO30726D...
I am not too happy about this choice of name either; what immediately comes to mind when hearing it is some overly-large woman in an uncomfortable, tattered...
Why not Kybéle, the goddess of Frigia. At -400F it seems to fit, eh? ... From: mpml@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mpml@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of P. Clay Sherrod...
... I still need to think about this bizarre situation... Now after three big TNOs were found and published it is clear that there must be more of them. So...
The Lowell 'Deep Ecliptic Survey' has a few dozen TNOs that are reported to the MPC but not published for lack of follow-up astrometry. Notional orbits...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Aug 1, 2005 8:50 pm
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... A three day arc was used to find the object in the NEAT archive just 14 days later if I read the MPEC correctly. Then the next set was found 11 days later...
Me again. ... Excuse me, but if I read the MPEC *really* correctly then not Reiner but J.L. Ortiz and R. Matson found the first archive positions. So they are...
Hi Felix, ... Thanks for the kudos, but I'm sure Reiner had no problem doing the NEAT precovery on 2003 EL61. When Ortiz posted his message to MPML (prior to...
... Some new MPECs popped up. KBO30726D is http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K05/K05P10.html and KBO40804A is http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/mpec/K05/K05P11.html...
... Maybe, but I don't expect a sudden change in the description for Pluto to cause any change to my understanding of the Solar System. ... But Pluto hasn't...
So you're saying he had no problem doing the precovery work because Ortiz posted such a good orbit. Where did that good orbit come from? I would have thought...
Gil and list, I don't think that anyone of us needs to prove his innocence but rather the ones making accusations should prove their claims. Anyway, because...
... I have just posted a detailed reply. Please read it carefully. Anyway, Felix' reply already explained the basics. Yes, Rob, the orbit posted by JL already ...
Hello, With the last new message from Ron Baalke on the "tenth planet", it's difficult to stay silent... This last report has some dark sides, notably for the...
Gerard FAURE
gpmfaure@...
Aug 1, 2005 11:25 pm
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It's blindingly obvious enough to be tautological that changing the nomenclature isn't going to change either the object, or its place in our scientific...
David Whitehouse
Dr_D_Whitehouse@...
Aug 1, 2005 11:51 pm
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I have a slightly different impression of what happened here. I don't think Ortiz and/or Reiner are the ones implicated as "hackers". Using Marsden's mail...
... Yes, indeed. Over the last two nights I aimed an 11 inch SCT at 2003 UB313 and did 10 minute guided exposures. It appears as a sharp point of light on...
