Following the new reported observations (MPEC 2008-M36), which almost double the observational arc of Comet P/2008 J3 (McNaught), I have updated the pictures...
Hi Everyone, According to news reports in the Los Angeles Times, Pasadena Star-News, and Riverside Press-Enterprise, there was a daylight fireball over...
Lance Benner
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Jul 2, 2008 3:41 am
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Dear members, I am sorry for a non-sense message that I just sent to the list by an unwanted mouse click. Now comes a hopefully no-nonsense one ... :-) Thanks...
... Patrick: as you have mentioned, Software Bisque does have native OS-X astrometry software working in house. And yes even the newer Nomad catalog with 1...
Hi Dave, ... Excellent. I didn't know they already had it working. I thought they were still working on it. Maybe it'll be out sooner than I thought. patrick...
Thanks Patrick and David for your suggestion. Let us just wait for the incoming Software Bisque application (unfortunately I do not think it will be as cheap...
The night between the 27 and the 28 june I have recorded, with my station video, a meteor of -2.5 with to an other friend who finds itself to approximately...
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Roberto wrote: Roberto, That rotation, if an association existed, would probably imply considerable age, making the similarity of the other...
Robert McNaught
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Jul 4, 2008 5:17 pm
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Between last Christmas and the end of the year, there was a chain-discussion on this list I would call "twining asteroids", asteroids with a (possible) common...
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_6_26_08.asp Dawn Journal Dr. Marc Rayman June 26, 2008 Dear Dawnlettantes, Now using an ion thruster that had been...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jul 6, 2008 3:53 am
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Media Relations University of Calgary Calgary, Canada Media contacts: Grady Semmens Senior Communications Manager - Research University of Calgary Phone: (403)...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jul 6, 2008 4:01 am
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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/070208.html New Horizons Team Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Charon's Discovery July 2, 2008 This week the New...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jul 6, 2008 4:21 am
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... That depends on what you mean by "planet" :-) There are minor planets that are binaries of nearly equal size components. ...
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Rosetta/SEMQPDSHKHF_0.html Rosetta awakes from hibernation for asteroid encounter European Space Agency 3 July 2008 Spacecraft...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jul 6, 2008 5:00 am
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What is the definition of a planet-satellite system ? Does the planet is the heavier or the larger object ? I suppose that in a system with both objects having...
Jean-Claude Merlin
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Jul 6, 2008 3:29 pm
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Congratulations to Robert Holmes and and the crew at Astronomical Research (H55) on the discovery of C/2008 N1 ( Holmes ). Gary...
Hello Rob, The compuation of uncertainties is a key factor in any association. It happens very often that the error on the semi-major axis is HUGHE for ...
I haven't bothered to enter into this discussion, but maybe I should and hope to end it. The meteor orbit has about the same node, but a grossly different...
Hello all, I just catch this new object - see orbital elements of 2008 MW4 below - with a quite high eccentricity of 0,35. Can anyone tell me if this minor...
... Semimajor axis appears to be too small to be in the 2:1 resonance with Jupiter. By the way, I've always considered Griquas to be a group, not a family in...
Dave Tholen
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Jul 8, 2008 10:19 am
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The Computation Facility's webserver has apparently died, resulting in the unavailability of all CfA, SAO, MPC, CBAT and ICQ pages hosted on that machine. I...
Hello Jeremie and the others, These are the errors that with my friend we have calculated using our video: Geo. vel. 20.8+- 1.8km/s The calculate bars of error...
... I've only had a quick look, but they seem to have done this in this http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=284061 paper,...
... The paper doesn't list the asteroids, but does refer to a web site where they are listed: http://sirrah.troja.mff.cuni.cz/yarko-site/r21/r21_table.html The...
Dave Tholen
tholen@...
Jul 9, 2008 7:50 pm
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Study Puts Solar Spin on Asteroids, their Moons & Earth Impacts http://www.newsdesk.umd.edu/scitech/release.cfm?ArticleID=1691 The video of the simulation ran...
Dear members, Thanks to Stephen McAndrew, who provided new observations extended to July 14, here is a new update for the past encounter of Comet P/2008J3 with...
Hi Aldo, Prompted by your comments on it, I ran a Monte Carlo simulation on this object. The pre-encounter orbits mostly have e around .65 to .71 and...
Is there anyone with a knowledge of Fortran who would be able to compile this package to run on a PC under Windows? I'm sure there are many people on the list...
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMVGAWIPIF_index_0.html Mars Express to rendezvous with Martian moon European Space Agency 16 July 2008 Scientists and engineers are...
