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2007 TU24
Published on 26 Jan 2008 at 10:46 pm.
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There has been considerable written about asteroid 2007 TU24 around the internet. I am not going to repeat all of that here. This asteroid was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on October 11, 2007. What made this particular asteroid the subject of a lot of internet chatter is that it is passing […]
Bill Haley and His Asteroid
Published on 22 Oct 2007 at 2:20 pm.
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This weekend was the peak of the annual Orionid Meteor Shower. I had meant to blog about that, but I got busy and never got around to it. A lot of others wrote about the meteor shower, though, so I don’t feel so bad. Instead, I thought that I’d write about something […]
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100000 Astronautica
Published on 10 Oct 2007 at 1:01 am.
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The asteroid 1982 SH1 has a new name. It is 100000 Astronautica. Discovered in 1982 by Jim Gibson of the Palomar Observatory, 1982 SH1 also has the designation 2002 CW115. Taking 2.63 years to orbit the Sun at about a distance of 1.9 AU from the Sun, Astronautica is a Main Belt […]
The Titius-Bode Law, aka: Bode’s Law
Published on 5 Sep 2007 at 11:43 pm.
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In my last posting, I mentioned something called Bode’s Law. I sometimes get questions about Bode’s Law, so I thought that I’d say something about it.
First of all, it isn’t really a “law” at all, in the scientific sense of the word. It is at best a “rule.” There is no physical […]
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2 Pallas
Published on 3 Sep 2007 at 7:08 pm.
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Yesterday, the asteroid 2 Pallas was at opposition. When a planet, asteroid, or comet is at opposition, it generally means that the body in opposition is on the opposite side of Earth from the Sun. In other words, the Earth is passing between the asteroid and the Sun. All of the major […]
25399 Vonnegut
Published on 12 Apr 2007 at 1:32 pm.
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Apparently Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) passed away yesterday. Being an avid scifi reader, I’ve read some of his works (though he wrote far more than just scifi!). I could write about his work, but others are doing that, I am sure. So, I decided to say something that you might not know. […]
Juno at opposition
Published on 10 Apr 2007 at 4:52 pm.
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Today, Earth is between the asteroid 3 Juno and the Sun. That means that the asteroid appears opposite the Sun in the sky, as seen from Earth. We call this orientation “opposition” for obvious reasons. At opposition, a body rises at sunset and sets at sunrises. It is highest in the […]
