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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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