It's time to start thinking about presenting a paper at the Society for Astronomical Sciences annual meeting. The next meeting will be Wed/Thur, May 25/26,...
The Minor Planet Bulletin, the quarterly publication of the Asteroids division of ALPO, is now available on-line for no charge (though a $5/year donation is...
Michel, I just tried to download the file and everything seems fine. Did you click on the link or did you right-click? If the former, this downloads the 3MB...
I ran into the no display when I had two versions of Adobe installed and had the file associations not quite right. In any event, by doing the right-click/save...
Ever read Richard Muller's book: Nemesis "The Death Star". Could Nemesis explain Sedna's (2003 VB12) locality and other peculiarities? -Scott Science -...
The December NEO observing run at 696 is getting clouded out. Out of frustration, I'm posting some brighter objects from my target list that should be within...
Hi all, does anybody know to whom I should send astrometry of 2004 RZ164, listed on MPC as a Goldstone radar target, besides the MPC itself? JPLS's site...
... astrometry ... Your astrometry will be on tonight's DOU MPEC, so unless there is exceptional urgency for the observations (there aren't for this object),...
The 2004 RZ164 track at Goldstone had to be cancelled. This was to be a restart after a 6 month maintenance/upgrade, but the shutdown was extended. So...
US television viewers on this list may want to know that next Wednesday's episode of "West Wing" involves an approaching asteroid... Happy Solstice! Patrick...
Donald Savage/Gretchen Cook-Anderson Headquarters, Washington Dec. 10, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1547/0836) DC Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Dec 10, 2004 9:55 pm
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MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES December 6-10, 2004 o Crater in Nighttime IR (Released 6 December 2004) http://themis.la.asu.edu/zoom-20041206A.html o Nighttime IR...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Dec 10, 2004 10:03 pm
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Hello everyone, A group of professional astronomers, including myself, are conducting a campaign to characterize the physical properties of the "on again, off...
Dear Carl, I have been doing extensive photometry of this object from Chile, since its discovery, with the collaboration of Franco Mallia and Roger Wilcox. We ...
Hello, I know I dont post all that ofeten but I need some help. I wanted to dl the Orbital Elements into my Planetarium Program. I use The Sky and am lost....
All, The Palmer Divide Observatory is planning a one day photometry workshop on Tuesday, May 24, 2005, at the Northwoods Resort in Big Bear, CA. The morning...
I've been an avid reader of the MPML postings for about 18 months now, and have communicated with a few of you privately about a project I've been working on...
... Remember that the figure of merit is v^2/r. The relative velocity of the two asteroids is even more important than their minimum separation. -- Bill Owen...
Bill Owen
wmo@...
Dec 14, 2004 5:14 pm
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Dear Bill, You may be interested in checking out the liborsa numerical library, part of the ORSA framework: http://orsa.sf.net that provides a framework for...
Pasquale Tricarico
pasquale.tricarico@...
Dec 14, 2004 7:28 pm
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Donald Savage Headquarters, Washington Dec. 14, 2004 (Phone: 202/358-1727) D.C. Agle Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. (Phone:...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Dec 14, 2004 9:35 pm
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Dear All, I'm pleased to introduce the first light images of the Campocatino Austral Observatory (CAO) telescope, a 0.5-f/3 fully robotic instrument that our...
Congrats to Gordon, Rob, and the SSS/CSS gang on this object. Not often you see e > a! \Brian...
Brian Skiff
brian.skiff@...
Dec 15, 2004 11:44 pm
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Hello! Can someone tell me which version of the Spaceguard Priority List is the "official" one? (If there is an official version at all.) The reason for my...
... Thanks Brian, its especially nice as its our first NEO in a while, thunderstorms and cloud have been seriously eating into our observing. cheers, Gordon --...
Dear colleagues, This is a reminder. About one week after this is a very good chance to detect the dust trail of Phaethon. Please see my e-mail on Oct. 12, or ...
I thought the readers of MPML might like to consider the most unusual place from which they have controlled a telescope. On Wednesday 15th December 2004 I...
Mine is only a C11 in a ProDome in Maryland. Probably the most esoteric places I've controlled it from were Kinko's just minutes before a Shakespeare play in...
