Hi, I thought the below message would be of interest to list members. The photo is quite bizarre. Regards, Paul Floyd. www.paulfloyd.id.au ----- Original Message ----- From: "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@tcworks.net> To: "P. Clay Sherrod" <drclay@tcworks.net> Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 8:26 PM Subject: {MPML} Very unusual sky event of August 16 >A very interesting event was captured this morning at ASO (Petit Jean >Mountain South MPC > H45) while acquiring a routine CCD image for asteroid astrometry. What > appears to be a > major breakup of some object passing through the frame was caught in a > 60-second > exposure of NEO 2007 PP9 in the constellation of Aquarius at 09:24 U.T. > (Aug. 16). > > A full description of the capture and the actual image is posted on the > ASO website News > Section at: > http://www.arksky.org/smf/index.php?topic=1385.0 > > Your suggestions, comments and speculations are welcome. Aften recording > tens of > thousands of routine images with all sorts of space debris passing > through, I frankly > have never seen anything to compare with this unusual event. > > Enjoy pondering....! > > Dr. Clay > ------------- > Arkansas Sky Observatories > Harvard MPC/ H43 (Conway) > Harvard MPC/ H41 (Petit Jean Mountain) > Harvard MPC/ H45 (Petit Jean Mtn. South) > http://www.arksky.org/ > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Posts to this list or information found within may be freely used, with > the stipulation that MPML and the originating author are cited as the > source of the information. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mpml/ > > <*> Your email settings: > Individual Email | Traditional > > <*> To change settings online go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mpml/join > (Yahoo! ID required) > > <*> To change settings via email: > mailto:mpml-digest@yahoogroups.com > mailto:mpml-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com > > <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > mpml-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > > <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Frequently Asked Questions, SeeSat-L archive: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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