... OK, point taken. I overstated the situation as much in the opposite direction as the press release by declaring some epochal significance to the 2MASS...
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen of the Forum, I would appreciate it if the asteroid astrometry stations in the near vicinity of Tucson, Arizona, perhaps within a 100...
Dave Tholen will be able to correct me, but if you take the mean asteroid V-K color to be about that of a K0 dwarf (maybe too red, but it puts a faint limit on...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Apr 1, 2003 9:41 am
9808
... Richard: Any chance you can burn those images to a CD for me? I would like to put together an animation and use it in my Techniques class as well as...
Hi Roy, Tucson is roughly at lon -111, lat +32.25. Following is a list of MPC stations between longitudes -114 to -108, and latitudes +30.25 to +34.25 (i.e.,...
... I have made a .gif animation from Richard's flats and placed it on the web at http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~oliver/ast3722/movingDonuts.gif Its fun. I asked...
Could you find a way to attach little cleaning pads to 'em? That would be a new concept in 'auto-cleaning' optics. Once the bugs were ironed out of course....
I received my copy of Asteroids III. Big book. Lots of reading to do. Thanks again, Alan. William Hartmann's cover painting has an interesting feature in the...
I replaced the hard drive in my observatory computer again (3rd time), reinstalled all the software and came across a problem. The computer refuses to see the...
http://science.nasa.gov/ppod/y2003/02apr_vesta.htm April 2, 2003 Asteroid Vesta Credit: Don Pettit, ISS Expedition 6 Science Officer, NASA Explanation: Picture...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Apr 2, 2003 6:52 pm
9817
http://www.isas.ac.jp/e/new/release/2003/02_01.html MUSES-C Monthly Report No.2 ISAS January 15, 2003 Experiencing Outer Space in Thermal Vacuum Test The...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Apr 2, 2003 11:29 pm
9818
http://www.isas.ac.jp/e/new/release/2003/03_03.html MUSES-C Monthly Report No. 3 ISAS February 25, 2003 From January to early February, MUSES-C underwent a...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Apr 2, 2003 11:41 pm
9819
Dear All, I'm using astrometrica to reduce a critical field for the small USNO SA2.0. I would like to ask what files of the bigger A2.0 I have to download to ...
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/ New Launch Date for Deep Impact Deep Impact Project April 1, 2003 A new launch window is announced for the Deep Impact project,...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Apr 3, 2003 10:14 pm
9822
Hello you all, A pi-puppids meteor "shower" will happend on April 23rd, 15:00 UT +- 1:00. But particles are expected to be very tiny. So the profile will...
... The nominal orbit has q greater than 1.3 AU, but the range of values allowed by the observations is 1.289 to 1.315 AU, so it could be a marginal Amor....
David Tholen
tholen@...
Apr 5, 2003 2:49 am
9826
I'm confused here. Didn't MPC change their rules late last year so that you no longer need two nights to get credit for a discovery? -John ... ...
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen of the Forum, Can anyone suggest a software utility that will flag possible non-Main Belt objects in a large astrometry report? Thank...
Within PRISM (the software I used to use, but am going to use again next month :-) ), there is a possibility to plot the velocity of the objects both in...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Apr 6, 2003 7:11 am
9830
http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/~sheppard/satellites/jup2003.html New Satellites of Jupiter Discovered in 2003 University of Hawaii A work in progress: Most recent...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Apr 6, 2003 7:11 am
9831
Hello, everyone, I'm new for this list. I'm an amateur living in China. Just a small question. I noticed asteroid 1937 UB hasn't got a standard code so far....
Huan Meng
meteorobs_menhu@...
Apr 6, 2003 11:43 am
9832
Hello Huan, ... Yes, you are right - this is a lost asteroid with a name (Hermes) but without a number. You'll find some useful information on this page (incl....
Hello, everyone, I'm new for this list. I'm an amateur living in China. Just a small question. I noticed asteroid 1937 UB hasn't got a standard code so far....
Huan Meng
meteorobs_menhu@...
Apr 6, 2003 11:52 am
9834
Hi Huan, ... It has a provisional designation (1937 UB), but there is no need to recover it and get it numbered as it is already *named*. Just kidding... it is...
