Re: J002E3

From: Tony Beresford (aberesford@iprimus.com.au)
Date: Wed Sep 11 2002 - 21:17:29 EDT

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    At 06:21 12/09/02, Joseph A. Dellinger wrote:
    >        We observed J002E3 at the George Observatory outside Houston last
    >night. For those of us used to observing 19th-magnitude asteroids, this one
    >(at around 16th magnitude) was a piece of cake! A very interesting object.
    >(We'll turn in the astrometry tomorrow; I plan to observe it again tonight.)
    >I encourage others to try for it also. Note you need to get ephemerides
    >tailored to your observing location for this one. But, I guess satellite
    >observers are well used to having to do that. :-)
    Just to reiterate, observations should go to Paul Chodas  ( paul.chodas@jpl.nasa.gov)at JPL, and to Bill Gray of project Pluto
    as well ( pluto@projectpluto.com ) . Bill is maintaining a "psuedo MPEC"
    at http://www.projectpluto.com/j002e3.htm
    
    
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