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Contents  on 9 February '09

• IAU Minor Planet Center
  • NEOCP Activity -- one listing: 1 new
  • New MPECs -- three MPECs
• 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

The latest A/CC news is available via framed access,  RSS news feed, or redirection. - Note: A/CC has a main Web site and also a backup site with its own duplicate RSS news feed.

Navigation tips: Use the << and >> arrows on the menus for each regular section (Observers, Risks, etc.) to move to the previous and next day's news for that section. Use the Index menu item to access specific days through a calendar interface. And use the all-up news archive to access news from any time since A/CC began in early 2002. To keep track of what's new each day, watch the Chronology section.

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NEOCP Activity  on 9 February '09

The MPC's NEO Confirmation Page has 1 listing: 1 new

When last checked at 2358 UTC today, the Minor Planet Center's Near Earth Object discovery Confirmation Page (NEOCP) had one new listing.

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 9 February '09

Minor Planet Electronic Circulars

As of last check at 2358 UTC, there have been three MPECs posted today from the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• MPEC 2009-C65 time-stamped "07:07 UT" - Daily Orbit Update - see below
• MPEC 2009-C66 time-stamped "12:16 UT" - 2000 CK59 = 2009 CU - see below
• MPEC 2009-C67 time-stamped "15:21 UT" - 2007 LF

MPEC 2009-C67 - "15:21 UT" - 2007 LF

• K07L00F   2007 LF (Earth MOID=1.6 LD, H=20.5 ~269m) from David Tholen's team on Mauna Kea (Nov. 20.48p1 at R=22.9) and David Tholen's team via Faulkes Telescope North (Feb. 1.29p1 at R=23.2)

MPEC 2009-C66 - "12:16 UT" - 2000 CK59 = 2009 CU

• K00C59K   2000 CK59 (small asteroid, H=24.1 ~51m)

<< DOU on 9 Feb. '09 >>  MPEC 2009-C65 - "07:07 UT" - Daily Orbit Update

• Observations of small asteroids (H>22.0)
• K09C00P   2009 CP (arc=7 days, H=26.8 ~15m) from Great Shefford Obs. (Feb. 9.03-05p2)
• K09B58L   2009 BL58 (arc=11 days, H=24.7 ~39m) from Great Shefford Obs. (Feb. 9.00-01p3)
• K09B58H   2009 BH58 (arc=8 days, H=23.5 ~68m) from the Siding Spring Survey (SSS) (Feb. 2.70-71p3 & 5.74p1)
• Observations of other objects
• K02V94Y   2002 VY94 (Q=5.375 AU, arc=2 opp, H=16.8 ~1.48 km) from Carmelita Obs. (Feb. 8.84-90p3)

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Observers  on 9 February '09

Five observing facilities appear in today's MPECs.

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Impact Risk Monitoring  on 9 February '09

At last check (NEODyS and JPL at 2358 UTC) there was no risk monitoring news to report yet today. Visit the CRT to view activity in the last four weeks and our ephemerides page for a complete list of risk-rated objects under current observation or having recent news.

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Chronology  on 9 February '09

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