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Contents  on 22 March '08

• IAU Minor Planet Center
  • NEOCP Activity -- two listings: 2 updated
  • New MPECs -- one MPEC
• Observers -- five observing facilities
• Impact Risk Monitoring -- nothing to report
• Chronology

Resources:

• Consolidated Risk Tables - the CRT page
• Earth's Busy Neighborhood Traffic Report
• Ephemerides for risk-rated and nearby objects
• Old & new CRT Archive
• Old News Archive & Small Objects Archive

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NEOCP Activity  on 22 March '08

The MPC's NEO Confirmation Page has 2 listings: 2 updated

When last checked at 2354 UTC today, the Minor Planet Center's NEO discovery Confirmation Page (NEOCP) had two updated listings. Both of these were "one nighters."

To learn how observers use the NEOCP, see the Practical guide on how to observe NEOCP object by Birtwhistle et al. at Suno Observatory.

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New MPECs  on 22 March '08

Minor Planet Electronic Circulars

As of last check at 2354 UTC, there has been one MPEC issued today from the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

<< DOU on 22 Mar. '08 >>  MPEC 2008-F22 - "06:06 UT" - Daily Orbit Update

• K08C01L   2008 CL1 (arc=42 days, H=19.5 ~426m) from Siegen Obs. (March 3.93p3 & 6.00p2)
• K08A00E   2008 AE (arc=2 opp, H=19.7 ~389m) from Petit Jean Mtn. South Obs. (PJMSO) (March 21.39-40p6)
• K07V04Q   2007 VQ4 (arc=3 opp, H=15.8 ~2.34 km, q=1.271 AU) from PJMSO (March 21.40-41p5)
• K06G00Z   2006 GZ (arc=2 opp, H=19.3 ~467m) from program code "|" via La Silla (March 13.25-26p8)
• K05N07B   2005 NB7 (arc=3 opp, H=18.6 ~645m) from Heath Rhoades via Table Mtn. Obs. (March 21.17-18p4)
• K05B02E   2005 BE2 (arc=2 opp, H=18.2 ~776m) from PJMSO (March 21.30-31p6)
• H8601   178601 2000 CG59 from the Spacewatch 0.9m telescope (March 15.22-23p2)
• 89830   89830 2002 CE from PJMSO (March 21.31-32p5)
• 11398   11398 1998 YP11 from PJMSO (March 21.36-37p5)

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Observers  on 22 March '08

Five observing facilities appear in today's MPEC.

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Impact Risk Monitoring  on 22 March '08

At last check (NEODyS and JPL at 2354 UTC) there was no risk monitoring news to report yet today. See the CRT for activity in the last month and our ephemerides page for a list of objects under current observation.

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Chronology  on 22 March '08

Times are UTC for when items were noted or added by The Tracking News.