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User ID: 943344 United States 05/24/2014 09:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts *** I think Aries is probably too confusing with Mars. I like Mikró, where does that come from ? K Mikro is Greek for small. Eireann~ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 58357597 United Kingdom 05/24/2014 09:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts *** I think Aries is probably too confusing with Mars. I like Mikró, where does that come from ? K Mikro is Greek for small. Thanks, but you have to consider that this discovery could be the giant mountain sized rock of doom that is coming to wipe out all life on the planet soon K |
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User ID: 943344 United States 05/24/2014 09:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts *** I think Aries is probably too confusing with Mars. I like Mikró, where does that come from ? K Mikro is Greek for small. Thanks, but you have to consider that this discovery could be the giant mountain sized rock of doom that is coming to wipe out all life on the planet soon K I just about drown in my coffee. I did not expect that comment from you. Ok. So no one sees the irony in us getting ELE'd by Tiny? Eireann~ I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. - Galatians 2:20 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 58357597 United Kingdom 05/24/2014 10:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts *** ... Quoting: K Hall I think Aries is probably too confusing with Mars. I like Mikró, where does that come from ? K Mikro is Greek for small. Thanks, but you have to consider that this discovery could be the giant mountain sized rock of doom that is coming to wipe out all life on the planet soon K I just about drown in my coffee. I did not expect that comment from you. Ok. So no one sees the irony in us getting ELE'd by Tiny? Yes and even more ironic is that Dr Astro would have to come here to tell everyone about space doom, and no one would believe him! The good news for us is that most of the asteroids bigger than 1km, that could cause a global catastrophe, have already been discovered. K |
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Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 55240075 United States 05/24/2014 01:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts *** I might have also found a second faint streak of an asteroid in the images I took yesterday... but if it is real then it's likely to be a near earth asteroid. Estimating about .078 AU away at the present time with an earth MOID of .04 AU. My observations only cover about 17 minutes, so this is all very preliminary and it may not have even been a real detection. It may just be noise that my mind is making out to be more than it is. I'm going to take a couple more images based on the ephemeris I generated to try and confirm it. I will say that based on the position I estimated for it in the three images (very hard on the last image since it should be right next to a bright star obscuring it in the last image if it followed the course from the first two images) the RMS error of the orbit I calculated was only about .6 arcseconds, which is very reasonable for a tough measurement. |
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Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 55240075 United States 05/24/2014 01:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts *** I'm attempting to recover that streak right now, we'll see if it's a real asteroid or not... Quoting: Dr. Astro Well, T27 is a bust. Damn thing isn't tracking. It took a 5 minute image... of star trails. Useless. Going to try T31. Scratch that, going for T30 scope since someone else just aborted their run :). |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 58357597 United Kingdom 05/24/2014 01:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts *** Alright, here's the first asteroid I've found which does not correspond to the predicted position of any known asteroid; it's either a new discovery or the recovery of an asteroid whose predicted position is no longer accurate. Quoting: Dr. Astro :myasteroid1: Well there it is. I will title you Dr Asteroid. Do you like any of the asteroid names yet. I am going for Laika. K |
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Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 55240075 United States 05/24/2014 02:50 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts *** Alright, here's the first asteroid I've found which does not correspond to the predicted position of any known asteroid; it's either a new discovery or the recovery of an asteroid whose predicted position is no longer accurate. Quoting: Dr. Astro :myasteroid1: Well there it is. I will title you Dr Asteroid. Do you like any of the asteroid names yet. I am going for Laika. K Giggity. I think it ought to be called "Rosetta" myself since that's what started the confusion lol. |
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Senior Forum Moderator User ID: 55240075 United States 05/24/2014 03:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts *** Alright, good news, bad news. Bad news first, I just confirmed this was not Rosetta. Now the good news, I have discovered a new asteroid that happened to be very close to Rosetta's expected location during the burn. There's another rock out there, and I'm the first to have seen it!! Not what I was originally going for, but it's a real discovery anyway, so I'll take it. I just took another image of it using an even larger telescope. I assumed for a moment that my alternative hypothesis was correct, that this was an undiscovered asteroid. I searched for it based on the assumption of the average speed and general direction of a typical main belt asteroid... and found it in the new image. I traced back along that line and found it faintly detected in the image I took yesterday. I'll finish doing to astrometry and orbit analysis using all of these images later tonight and submit the discovery to the minor planet center. This should mark my first official minor planet discovery as an amateur astronomer! At first glance though it appears to be moving in a manner consistent with a main belt asteroid. Quoting: Dr. Astro w00t! I love this :D So how do you go about tracking something like this after a chance sighting? I'd love to join you on this little discovery and find out where this new guy is going and where he came from. When you say main asteroid belt, are you talking about the one between Mars and Jupiter or a different one? And we should call it after the GLP mascot :) Mut! Orbit determination from the astrometry. Here's my orbital solution: Astrometry: 2014XX1 C2014 05 23.79532 19 51 39.74 -27 55 17.4 20.7 R Q62 2014XX1 C2014 05 23.79927 19 51 39.78 -27 55 17.1 20.9 R Q62 2014XX1 C2014 05 23.80711 19 51 39.86 -27 55 15.3 20.6 R Q62 Station data: (Q62) iTelescope Observatory, Siding Spring (S31.27336 E149.06442). Orbital elements: 2014XX1 Perihelion 2014 May 23.924299 TT = 22:10:59 (JD 2456801.424299) Epoch 2014 May 24.0 TT = JDT 2456801.5 Find_Orb M 0.01356 (2000.0) P Q n 0.17918808 Peri. 335.07559 0.07346859 0.98347536 a 3.11599411 Node 298.75624 -0.88044871 -0.01396508 e 0.2618728 Incl. 10.87934 -0.46841480 0.18050261 P 5.50 H 17.5 G 0.15 q 2.29999990 Q 3.93198832 From 3 observations 2014 May 23 (17.0 min); mean residual 0".132. Residuals in arcseconds: 140523 Q62 .00 .17+ 140523 Q62 .00 .26- 140523 Q62 .00 .09+ Ephemerides (456801.50000 1.000000 1): 2014XX1 17.40 0.15 K145O 0.01356 335.07560 298.75624 10.87934 0.2618728 0.17918809 3.1159941 FO 140524 3 1 17.0 min 0.13 Find_Orb 0000 2014XX1 Last Edited by Astromut on 05/24/2014 03:16 PM |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 58030363 United States 05/24/2014 05:01 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts *** I would name it Nibiru myself if it is indeed a new find. Can you imagine all the Hoopla that would create! Amateur Astronomer discovers Nibiru. Yeah man that would rock the World for years to come. You would become a Folk hero overnight. I bet if you submit that name , they would reject it and then youd have another great conspiracy going. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 58357597 United Kingdom 05/24/2014 05:23 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Rosetta Comet chaser closing in- *** GLP has discovered a new asteroid - New picture page 7, no name yet, share your thoughts *** I would name it Nibiru myself if it is indeed a new find. Can you imagine all the Hoopla that would create! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 58030363 Amateur Astronomer discovers Nibiru. Yeah man that would rock the World for years to come. You would become a Folk hero overnight. I bet if you submit that name , they would reject it and then youd have another great conspiracy going. It's the most popular idea so far. I think they would accept it OK, they already have accepted Zappafrank, Lancearmstrong, James Bond and someone's cat called Mr Spock. K |