http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/2006/J06-103.html William Jeffs Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 RELEASE: J06-103 NASA Scientists...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Dec 1, 2006 5:18 pm
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http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/01dec_lunarleonid.htm Lunar Leonid Strikes NASA Science News December 1, 2006 Dec. 1, 2006: Meteoroids are smashing...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Dec 1, 2006 7:12 pm
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***Meteoroids are smashing into the Moon a lot more often than anyone expected.*** Well maybe everyone except Brian Cudnik, Coordinator of ALPO's Lunar Impact...
I just did a little grocery shoppong and there in the magzine rack was the December issue of Popular Mechanics with Adophis on its cover, quite close to Earth....
Robert Perry
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Dec 2, 2006 2:39 pm
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http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/air_space/4201569.html [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
Robert Perry
perrybcn@...
Dec 2, 2006 2:57 pm
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... I wouldn't read articles that don't even get the name right ;-) There is no asteroid with that name. There is however a (99942) Apophis. And of course...
I seem to be able to send emails but I _think_ I'm not able to receive. My ISP help desk suggests I have someone send me a test email to confirm this. Of...
My sincere thanks to everyone who sent me test messages. No further test messages are needed. It would appear I am able to receive messages from individuals...
Detectors, Class 1 vs Class 2 Are they worth it? We are NOT a cutting edge facility, would the class 2 detract that much in astrometric work? (I can think of...
Hello fellow members, Our teaching/research observatory in the Cleveland Ohio area has come into some grant funding. Some of our work includes aquiring "pretty...
If you are having problems with Yahoogroups, instead of sending out emails to the list and trying to enlist the help of others, you should follow these steps. ...
Since several months, I have had problems with emails bouncing, being deconnected from Yahoogroups, having to reactivate, etc... Each time, it looks like my...
Reiner, So sorry, it was my typo. Now that I've read the article, I judge it to be well written and recommend that we get as many people as possible to...
Robert Perry
perrybcn@...
Dec 4, 2006 2:55 pm
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If Roger and/or Martin is monitoring, or some one who knows them is, please contact Josef Durech (colleague of Mikko Kaasalainen). jod at rni dot helsinki dot...
You should also know, the Planetary Radar at Arecibo is currently scheduled to be cut as of Sept 2007 based on recommendations (oversight may be a better word)...
what a way to save money . . . "Shepard, Michael K" <mshepard@...> wrote: You should also know, the Planetary Radar at Arecibo is currently...
Robert Perry
perrybcn@...
Dec 4, 2006 4:29 pm
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Dear MPML, (to follow up on Mike Shepard's comment:) The Arecibo Observatory is part of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC), which is operated...
Steve Ostro
ostro@...
Dec 4, 2006 4:34 pm
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... I would look more closely at the ST-9 or ST-1001 for that telescope. Without using a focal reducer, the ST-9 will give you about 1.65 arcsec/pixel and the...
Hi everybody, I'm going to send forst sets of MPC observations to obtain a code for my new observatory. What about using lat/long coordinates obtained using...
... Correction: no addition RADAR observations Optical observations will be trivial and should resume in 2011. We've been getting it nearly monthly for quite...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Dec 4, 2006 9:02 pm
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In general you should be as precise as possible, but may be only to a certain point. For example, even for NEO that comes as close as the Moon, and if your...
Dave, Sorry for my ignorance, but why are your observations of Apophis not reported to the MPC? Solar elongation will for about two more months now be over 60...
More important than the fact of using GPS, is the datum to which the position is referred. Since around 1995 the various national datums are being replaced ...
Quoting Jim Roe <jroe@...>: Hi Jim, Sorry about my previous empty post. I have access to both an ST-9(e)with a 512 X 512 array and an STL1001(e)with...
When I was getting started back before Google earth existed, I compared some earlier online mapping sites (Microsoft's Terraserver, etc) with two readings from...
Robert Warren <cometman_75@...> wrote: Sir, . . . the short of it is very simple. Nothing in the Popular Mechanics article is new. And it is not...
Robert Perry
perrybcn@...
Dec 5, 2006 8:35 pm
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Maybe not new. But what parts are inaccurate? What was left out? This type of blanket statement is irresponsible since it makes the entire article sound...
After reading the article with reasonable care, I find one nit to pick, in this paragraph: "...Can we predict Apophis's orbit to the submile level far enough...
