Since it takes a minimum of two observation to detect motion, I was surprised that lately MPC credit 2003 SC322 as my discovery :-) This is fun. Bill Yeung ......
Sorry if I had post this story before. At the end of an asteroid hunting career, it may be human nature to think of the good old days and what "amateurs" could...
Hello all, Are there anyone had taken photometry of 2006 UC185? I had some datasets here but the data points are not enough for a prefect photometry work... ...
Hi all, Just a short message - I thought we are about to know all Earth-crossing asteroids having absolute magnitude less than 16.5. Some stray asteroid may...
Hi Adrian, Seems we have the same hobby of rolling down the mouse to read everyday's DOU;-) But why an object with e>0.5 doesn't get an MPEC? The sky motion ...
Hi Quanzhi, Thank you for your email. Yes, it is strange that such object appeared without special MPEC. I guess MPC staff similarly doesn't expect it to be a...
in a popular book i'm working on, i mention asteroid (6235) burney, named after venetia burney-phair who proposed the name pluto back in 1930. this asteroid...
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_10_06.asp Dawn Journal Dr. Marc D. Rayman October 29, 2006 Dear Dawnvironments, The Dawn spacecraft is in space! Well,...
http://www.spmn.uji.es/meteoroids-2007 Meteoroids 2007 Barcelona, Spain June 11-15, 2007 REGISTER ONLINE...
Ron Baalke
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Nov 6, 2006 6:06 pm
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mpml@yahoogroups.com a écritt ... Wikipedia has the answer. According to my research (and some pointed enquiries here and there), they are Seiji Ueda and...
Elia and Bill, thank you for your very helpful answers and remarks! I could not get the website http://www.fitsblink.net/residuals/residuals.html to provide...
I've gotten three or four phone calls from people telling me they heard my name mentioned on the History Channel ("or maybe it was that Discovery Channel") in...
I was hoping someone here might know of the parameters which the MPC apparently uses to constrain their monthly asteroid db "MPCORB.DAT" so as to limit a...
... The difference is mainly objects that are long lost so that elements integrated to current epoch are functionally useless for predicting positions....
One should keep in mind that the MPC is maintaining an orbital database, which is made available through the Extended Computer Service (ECS), for which one has...
Gerhard Hahn
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Nov 9, 2006 9:19 am
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Anyone else having trouble with Acknowledgements via MPC Scully? ... from mail.tcworks.net [216.61.218.4] ... autoack@scully... Deferred: Connection reset by...
From the MPC Status Page (a useful one to keep bookmarked) : http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPCStatus.html 2006 Nov. 8: 23:50. It appears that the MPC...
See info at http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPCStatus.html ... -- ____________________________________________________________________________________ Dr....
Gerhard Hahn
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Nov 9, 2006 2:26 pm
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There is a note on MPC Status " MPC Webserver machine 2006 Nov. 8: 23:50. It appears that the MPC webserver machine is hanging again. Since the last attempt to...
... I doubt it would do any good. Reading all of the guy's posts it looks like you either agree with him or you're wrong. ... I think everyone here knows he...
Actually you need to read the thread from a little higher up to understand Ed's comments. "This is just the sort of project that would appeal to volunteer...
