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Re: ACM 2008 Program

Don Galt — Sat, 10 May 2008 16:28:55 GMT

I see some familiar names here including yours. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/acm2008/pdf/sess606.pdf How is Orbit@Home doing? don

co-worker needed

jeohoo — Fri, 09 May 2008 12:40:18 GMT

Hey everybody. My name is Gloria Park, a science high school student from South Korea. Here is a project that I want to conduct. The project is figuring out

65-million-year-old Asteroid Impact Triggered a Global Hail of Carbo

Ron Baalke — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:17:39 GMT

Media Relations Indiana University Contact: David Bricker, University Communications 812-856-9035 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 5, 2008 65-million-year-old

Re: Observatories on Google Earth

Dave Herald — Wed, 07 May 2008 19:29:17 GMT

Good question. You are correct in saying that for astronomical applications you need to convert the coordinates of the observatory to geocentric-referenced XYZ

Re: Observatories on Google Earth

grunwalder2002 — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:21:53 GMT

... http://scully.cfa.harvard.edu/~cgi/FeedBack?U=/iau/ContactUs.html&S=Observatory%20Code%20Correction ... Please do not use this link directly! If you do,

Re: Observatories on Google Earth

Bill J Gray — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:10:25 GMT

Hi Dave, Thanks for the clarification on this. In particular, I remembered (from working at a mapping company before 1992) that the difference between MSL

Re: Observatories on Google Earth

Scott Stuart — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:09:03 GMT

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Dave Herald ... Why do you say it is better to use MSL as the vertical datum? I would think that

ACM 2008 Program

Pasquale Tricarico — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:49:19 GMT

The program of the ACM 2008 meeting has just been posted online: http://acm2008.jhuapl.edu/ http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/acm2008/pdf/program.pdf Cheers,

Re: Observatories on Google Earth

Dave Herald — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:40:08 GMT

Re altitudes.... Prior to GPS, altitudes were almost universally referenced to Mean Sea Level. Because GPS computes the location of the observer in 3-D space,

Re: Observatories on Google Earth

Bill J Gray — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:01:14 GMT

I notice that MPC has a form to report corrections to observatory locations:

Re: Observatories on Google Earth

Richard Kowalski — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:35:44 GMT

http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showthreaded.php/Cat/0/Number/89986/page/0 Be aware that there is discussion on this file that many of the obsolete and no longer

Observatories on Google Earth

Jure Skvarč — Mon, 05 May 2008 20:23:34 GMT

This probably already exists somewhere, but I couldn't find it yesterday: observatories from the MPC list viewable on Google Earth. Where available, I added a

Gene Shoemaker

Martin Mc Kenna — Sat, 03 May 2008 17:33:59 GMT

Yes, happy birthday to Gene. I'm a big fan of his work! Martin Mc Kenna N. Irelandhttp://www.Nightskyhunter.com/ To: mpml@...:

Gene Shoemaker

Don Galt — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:01:32 GMT

Belated Happy birthday. (April 28, 1928 ? July 18, 1997) R.I.P. Gene Shoemaker did more than any other person to advance the idea that sudden geologic

Re: Distribution of inclinations

Loucks, Scott — Fri, 02 May 2008 17:18:33 GMT

And here: http://sajri.astronomy.cz/asteroidgroups/groups.htm