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Contents  on 31 January '10

• IAU Minor Planet Center
  • NEOCP Activity -- two listings: 1 new, 1 updated
  • New MPECs -- two MPECs
• Observers -- six 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
• News image catalog
• 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 31 January '10

The MPC's NEO Confirmation Page has 2 listings: 1 new, 1 updated

When last checked at 2300 UTC today, the Minor Planet Center's Near Earth Object discovery Confirmation Page (NEOCP) had one new and one updated listing.

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

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New MPECs  on 31 January '10

Minor Planet Electronic Circulars

As of last check at 2300 UTC, there have been two MPECs posted today from the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• MPEC 2010-B67 time-stamped "00:01 UT" - 2008 TD4 - see below
• MPEC 2010-B68 time-stamped "07:09 UT" - Daily Orbit Update

<< DOU on 31 Jan. '10 >>  MPEC 2010-B68 - "07:09 UT" - Daily Orbit Update

• Observations of recently (no longer) risk-listed objects
• K10B02U   2010 BU2 (small asteroid, arc=10 days, H=24.5 ~43m) from Tenagra II Obs. (Jan. 30.50-51p2) and Great Shefford Obs. (Jan. 31.00-02p3)
• Observations of small asteroids (H>22.0)
• K10B05G   2010 BG5 (arc=6 days, H=24.0 ~54m) from Great Shefford Obs. (Jan. 30.77-82p4)
• K10B04Z   2010 BZ4 (Q=4.416 AU, arc=6 days, H=22.4 ~112m) from Great Shefford Obs. (Jan. 30.98-00p3)
• Observations of other objects
• K09W06R   2009 WR6 (arc=70 days, H=18.3 ~741m) from Faulkes Telescope South (Jan. 25.60p2)
• K04X50D   2004 XD50 (arc=2 opp, H=18.6 ~645m) from David Asher via Faulkes Telescope North (Jan. 28.45-46p3)
• K04R84D   2004 RD84 (arc=2 opp, H=19.1 ~513m) from Asher/Faulkes North (Jan. 28.45p2)
• K04A01R   2004 AR1 (arc=4 opp, H=19.8 ~371m) from Asher/Faulkes North (Jan. 28.45p2)
• 86067   86067 1999 RM28 from Kiev Comet Station (Jan. 30.05-07p14)

MPEC 2010-B67 - "00:01 UT" - 2008 TD4

• K08T04D   2008 TD4 (H=19.8 ~371m) from David Tholen's team on Mauna Kea (Jan. 18.35-38p2 at R=24.0-3 & 19.27-28p2 at R=23.9-24.3)

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Observers  on 31 January '10

Six observing facilities appear in today's MPECs.

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Impact Risk Monitoring  on 31 January '10

At last check (NEODyS and JPL at 2300 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 31 January '10

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