Happy New Year! 2002 NEAs in 2002 year! Regards, Irek (553) Chorzow ... should be proceeded...
Ireneusz Wlodarczyk
ireneusz_wlodarczyk@...
Jan 1, 2002 8:03 am
5918
I normally do not directly address this list with requests for observations, but in this case there is some urgency, to the point that I cannot wait for the...
Andrea Milani
milani@...
Jan 1, 2002 8:39 am
5919
I have added a link at the bottom of the MPML home page (http://www.bitnik.com/mp/index.html) to Tony's TLE listing of satellites that disguise themselves as...
Some UK comments on CAIN. James McGaha, MS, FRAS Director, Grasslands Observatory UK GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCE SITE OF NEO INFORMATION CENTRE ... "The government's...
James McGaha
mcgaha@...
Jan 1, 2002 8:04 pm
5921
The National NEO Information Centre announced by the BNSC today is not the same as CAIN, although they have been invited to join. CAIN is an independent...
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY P/2001/739 December 2001 EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01HRS TUESDAY 1 JANUARY 2002 SHOOTING STARS ACROSS THE GALAXY National Space...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jan 1, 2002 11:59 pm
5923
Jay, I am sorry that I mistook CAIN and BNSC to be the same program. I think you missed the point of the British press reports on the British efforts at NEO...
James McGaha
mcgaha@...
Jan 2, 2002 3:57 am
5924
Hello all, I finished a preliminary version of WinScan, a program to take drift scan images with SBIG cameras. It supports FITS files and SBIG files. Are there...
Does anyone have any idea when the new Japanese NEO Survey scope will began operations? And what does the impact look like in terms of follow up and the work...
http://www.lowell.edu/Public/Press/20011201.html Lowell Astronomers To Help Lead Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission Lowell Observatory 1400 West Mars Hill Road,...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jan 2, 2002 9:24 pm
5927
Planetary Sciences Best Student Paper Award Introduction: The Meteoritical Society and the Planetary Division of the Geological Society of America jointly...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jan 3, 2002 12:17 am
5928
Space Weather News for January 2, 2001 http://www.spaceweather.com MYSTERY METEORS: Earth is about to enter a stream of dusty space debris that gives rise...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jan 3, 2002 1:00 am
5929
... At the moment of close approach, the motion will approach 8 arcsec per second, so it should be noted that the primary contribution to astrometric ...
David Tholen
tholen@...
Jan 3, 2002 5:41 am
5930
Hi all, Is the MPChecker service down at this date and time? I seem unable to access it (Network Error: Connection reset by peer). Best regards, Ilan Manulis...
Ilan Manulis
ilan@...
Jan 3, 2002 5:46 am
5931
Dear David, I understand that the 50cm telescope (for follow up use) was installed several months ago, but the staff members are still struggling to adjust it....
Akimasa Nakamura
a-nakamu@...
Jan 3, 2002 1:19 pm
5932
... NEA candidate last added/updated (or page modified) on Oct. 6.59 UT. There are two NEA candidates in need of confirmation at the present time. ... I...
... OK, here is the latest version of MPChecker, which is usually linked from the MPC main page: http://scully.harvard.edu/~cgi/CheckMP Use this link until...
Hello MPML, I received two additional lightcurves (preliminary reduction) from colleagues of Modra Observatory (J. Toth, S. Gajdos, A. Galad and L. Kornos)...
Dear Reiner, Many thanks for the link and information! Best regards, Ilan Manulis ... From: Reiner M. Stoss <rstoss@...> To:...
Ilan Manulis
ilan@...
Jan 3, 2002 1:51 pm
5936
... I very much concur with this point, but hasten to point out that the problem is not as simple as just being sure your clock is set accurately. From my very...
Alan W. Harris
awharris@...
Jan 3, 2002 7:37 pm
5937
One-second errors are pretty common in the CCD world. What I did for some high-speed timing runs at the MMT was to feed the shutter open bit into a special...
... I wasn't sure if the software that operates my ST-7 records the start, middle or end of the exposure in the header. I set my system clock to the atomic...
... If it is easy to turn your drive off/on I think a feasible way to investigate this might be to set up on a field, turn off the drive, trigger the start of...
I would like to invite list members to join a campaign to recovery Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (PHA) 2001 CB21 during the coming weeks. With a dozen or so...
... A very successful low-tech method used in the last years at 611 was to press the "start exposure"-button with the right hand, look at a DCF radio...
... I've since had a chance to modify my short-arc orbit solution code to work with geocentric orbits. With a topocentric distance of 0.00025 AU and ...
David Tholen
tholen@...
Jan 4, 2002 3:13 am
5943
what is Molniya 3-44? Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@...) astronomy education consultant, From the Ground Up- Harvard University webmaster Eric's Black Sun...
http://www.orbital.com/Template.php?Section=News&NavMenuID=32&template=PressReleaseDisplay.php&PressReleaseID=347 Orbital Sciences Corporation January 4, 2002 ...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jan 4, 2002 6:40 pm
5946
http://www.jhuapl.edu/public/pr/020104.htm The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Office of Communications and Public Affairs Laurel, Maryland...
