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Contents  on 23 August '08

• IAU Minor Planet Center
  • NEOCP Activity -- seven listings: 2 new, 5 updated
  • New MPECs -- one MPEC
• Observers -- seventeen observing facilities
• Impact Risk Monitoring -- one object
• 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 23 August '08

The MPC's NEO Confirmation Page has 7 listings: 2 new, 5 updated

When last checked at 2357 UTC today, the Minor Planet Center's NEO discovery Confirmation Page (NEOCP) had two new and five updated listings. Of these, five 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 23 August '08

Minor Planet Electronic Circulars

As of last check at 2357 UTC, there has been one MPEC issued today from the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

<< DOU on 23 Aug. '08 >>  MPEC 2008-Q22 - "06:06 UT" - Daily Orbit Update

• Observations of risk-listed objects
• K08L00A   2008 LA (small asteroid, arc=73 days, H=23.1 ~81m) from David Tholen's team on Mauna Kea (Aug. 13.55-56p2 at R=22.9-23.3)
• Observations of recently (no longer) risk-listed objects
• K08P09J   2008 PJ9 (almost small, Q=4.224 AU, arc=14 days, H=21.9 ~141m) from Astronomical Research Obs. (ARO) (Aug. 20.25-27p3)
• K08P03H   2008 PH3 (arc=19 days, H=21.7 ~155m) from Hibiscus Obs. (Aug. 22.57-59p2)
• K08O08P   2008 OP8 (arc=22 days, H=19.7 ~389m) from ARO (Aug. 20.16-17p3)
• K08O02X   2008 OX2 (arc=23 days, H=20.0 ~339m) from ARO (Aug. 20.17p3)
• K08N03O   2008 NO3 (Q=4.666 AU, arc=192 days, H=18.5 ~676m) from the Spacewatch 1.8m telescope (Feb. 8.23-24p3)
• Observations of small asteroids (H>22.0)
• K08P02G   2008 PG2 (arc=17 days, H=22.7 ~98m) from ARO (Aug. 20.15-16p5)
• K08O00M   2008 OM (arc=26 days, H=22.3 ~117m) from ARO (Aug. 20.14-15p4)
• Observations of almost-small asteroids (21.7<H<=22.0)
• K08O08M   2008 OM8 (arc=21 days, H=22.0 ~135m) from ARO (Aug. 20.28-29p3)
• Observations of other objects
• K08Q00B   2008 QB (q=0.314 AU, arc=3 days, H=20.7 ~245m) from ARO (Aug. 20.17p7), Parma Obs. (Aug. 20.91-93p4), and Great Shefford Obs. (Aug. 22.87-89p4)
• K08O09S   2008 OS9 (arc=18 days, H=19.2 ~490m) from Moletai Obs. (Aug. 6.94p3)
• K08O02V   2008 OV2 (arc=23 days, H=20.3 ~295m) from ARO (Aug. 20.09-13p3)
• K08O00N   2008 ON (arc=28 days, H=20.5 ~269m) from ARO (Aug. 20.18p6) and McCarthy Obs. (Aug. 23.08-09p3)
• K08N00U   2008 NU (Q=4.203 AU, arc=50 days, H=17.6 ~1.02 km) from ARO (Aug. 20.30p3)
• K08N00B   2008 NB (arc=50 days, H=19.1 ~513m) from ARO (Aug. 20.28-29p3)
• K08M01R   2008 MR1 (arc=2 opp, H=18.5 ~676m) from the Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLS) (2006 Jan. 23.26-27p4 at V=21.7-22.4) and ARO (Aug. 20.26-28p7)
• K08M01H   2008 MH1 (Q=4.263 AU, arc=53 days, H=18.4 ~708m) from ARO (Aug. 20.07-08p4)
• K08J20O   2008 JO20 (Q=5.284 AU, arc=165 days, H=17.2 ~1.23 km) from the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) (2007 Dec. 31.19-20p3)
• K08J19T   2008 JT19 (arc=2 opp, H=19.8 ~371m) from Nordic Near-Earth-Object Network (NEON) (2005 June 2.95-96p2)
• K04X44N   2004 XN44 (arc=2 opp, H=18.4 ~708m) from the Spacewatch 0.9m telescope (Aug. 22.34-38p3)
• K04M07O   2004 MO7 (arc=3 opp, H=18.8 ~589m) from Tiki Obs. (Aug. 22.62-63p2)
• I9700   189700 2001 TA45 from Paus Obs. (Aug. 18.85-86p2)
• I8452   188452 2004 HE62 from Crespadoro Obs. (Aug. 18.80p3) and McCarthy Obs. (Aug. 23.11-13p3)
• 90403   90403 2003 YE45 from Crespadoro Obs. (Aug. 18.83-84p4)
• 65733   65733 1993 PC from Spacewatch 0.9m (Aug. 22.35-38p3)
• 08567   8567 1996 HW1 from Mt. Tuffley Obs. (Aug. 22.86p3)
• 07889   7889 1994 LX from Ojai Obs. (July 26.23p1 & 28.20p1)
• 04179   4179 Toutatis (1989 AC) from Mt. Tuffley Obs. (Aug. 22.91-92p3)

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Observers  on 23 August '08

Seventeen observing facilities appear in today's MPEC.

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Impact Risk Monitoring  on 23 August '08

Legend: VI# = VI count, Prob Cum = cumulative probability, PS Cum/Max = cumulative/maximum Palermo Scale, TS = Torino Scale

An impact solution, also known as a "virtual impactor" (VI), is not a prediction but rather a possibility derived from a variant orbit calculation that cannot be eliminated yet based on the existing data. Elimination can come quickly with just a little further observation or may take weeks or months, sometimes years. Once superceded or eliminated, a former impact solution has zero relevance to an object's risk. See Jon Giorgini's "Understanding Risk Pages" to learn more.

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Chronology  on 23 August '08

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