| Thursday | 14 October 2004 | 2:08pm MDT | 2004-10-14 UTC 2008 |
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News briefs
Manchester event: The Manchester Evening News of England reports today that “Two ‘fireballs’ in the sky could be clues to the massive mystery explosion which rocked part of Greater Manchester yesterday,” reported seen by one witness. The 7:30am blast, first reported by the paper yesterday, was heard in “Chorlton, Farnworth, Walkden, Worsley and Pendlebury.” Other explanations for the explosion have been ruled out by local authorities. DCT news: A Lowell Observatory news release today announces that the U.S. Forest Service has given permission to build the Discovery Channel Telescope (DCT) on a site outside Flagstaff, Arizona, and also reports a first step in creating the 4.3m primary mirror. The Arizona Daily Sun reports today that “Lowell has a little more than half of the funds to build the scope,” and is working on partnering with other institutions and looking for NASA asteroid search funding. Radar news: Today's Daily Orbit Update MPEC reports Arecibo radar observations of large NEA (H=15.20) 11066 Sigurd on |
The Asteroid/Comet Connection's Today's issue status: done
September 18th, and PHA 2004 RQ10 on the 19th and 20th. In October, it pinged binary NEA 66063 1998 RO1 on the 3rd, binary PHA 1998 ST27 on the 3rd, 4th, and 6th, and PHA 2004 JA27 on the 5th. Extrasolar news: Sky & Telescope has an article today, “A Planet Found Through Asteroid Belts,” about the recent discovery of an inner dust belt in the beta Pictoris system (see news). It says the observational evidence is confirmed by new supercomputer simulations that separate dust and gas in studying planetary disk evolution. And it looks forward to the ESO/NOAO Atacama Large Millimeter Array being built in Chile “that will provide astronomers with high-resolution maps of circumstellar dust disks.” |
