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Re: Meteor/fireball orbit determination

Bernd Brinkmann — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:00:09 GMT

Hello Bill ... I'm serving a permanent meteor video station within the IMO-Network since nearly 3 years now. So I could provide you with astrometry of meteors,

Re: Meteor/fireball orbit determination

Bill J Gray — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:15:28 GMT

Hi Tim, "...Maybe a stupid question, Would Find orb be able to give an orbit for a bright meteor/fireball?" I think so, yes. Be advised that this is more a

Re: Updated Find_Orb posted

isodextim — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:06:54 GMT

Hi Bill, Thanks for the update. Maybe a stupid question, Would Find orb be able to give an orbit for a bright meteor/fireball? Tim Wilson

Updated Find_Orb posted

Bill J Gray — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:04:51 GMT

Hello all, An "in development" version of Find_Orb with several fixes is now present at http://home.gwi.net/~pluto/devel Most of the improvements are listed at

LCROSS _will_ hit the moon

Bill J Gray — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:24:04 GMT

Hi folks, Several people have gotten astrometry for the LCROSS mission over the last month, and the data showed that it wasn't going to hit the moon after

Revised 'Find_Orb' posted

Bill J Gray — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 01:40:57 GMT

Hello all, I've just posted the update to fix assorted small issues, such as fractional lines appearing in ephemerides and in the list of observations;

Re: Incoming!

n.falla@... — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:49:54 GMT

Hi Bill Thanks for the suggestion, it sounds like a sensible compromise to me. Cheers Norman

Request for Find_Orb

Andrew Lowe — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:06:14 GMT

Hi Bill, May I suggest an enhancement for Find_Orb? If I've added or edited astrometry in a file and wish to recompute an orbit on the new data, I have to find

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Cristovao Jacques — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:57:05 GMT

Forgot to say, that I observed it remotely at D90, Australia ________________________________ De: Cristovao Jacques Para:

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Cristovao Jacques — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:44:55 GMT

Hello, I put a file with all published observations in mpc format at http://ceamig-rea.net/NEO/2008Tc3_Observations.txt Just to mention, that I only observed

Re: Incoming!

Bill J Gray — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:44:55 GMT

Hi Norman, "...I sense that if there were another potential impactor, MPC would prefer to handle the publicity." Perhaps so. But in cases like this, where

Re: Incoming!

n.falla@... — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:29:21 GMT

Thanks Charles/Bill for the info regarding the location of the 2008 TC3 data. It is certainly a lot easier to use than my method of cutting and pasting MPC

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Charles Bell — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:28:58 GMT

Hey Bill, From what I remember of last October, your noting that 2008 TC 3 being an impactor on the mpml yahoo group was key to its getting attention. I was

Re: Incoming!

Bill J Gray — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:02:42 GMT

Hi Norman, "...One tiny point: my display on the impact latitude lacks a North/South." Ouch! Thanks for mentioning this. I'll be posting the fix in a day or

Re: Incoming!

Charles Bell — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:45:13 GMT

You can obtain all the published observations of 2008 TC3 in MPEC 2008-T50 through MPEC 2008-T74. ________________________________ From: