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Contents  on 27 July '10

• Radar Astrometry -- one object
• IAU Minor Planet Center
  • NEOCP Activity -- 17 listings: 14 new, 3 updated
  • New MPECs -- nine MPECs
• Observers -- three observing facilities
• Impact Risk Monitoring -- nothing to report
• Chronology

Resources:

• Consolidated Risk Tables - the CRT page
    Of 325 risk-listed objects, 19 have had news in the last month. Updated at 1455 UTC.
• Earth's Busy Neighborhood Traffic Report
    No objects are known to be within ten LD of Earth today. Updated at 0538 UTC.
• 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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Radar Astrometry  on 27 July '10

Radar observation of one object

The JPL Solar System Dynamics Group Radar Astrometry database has added or updated the following small-body radar observing work:

Data update noted at 2202 UTC when the database was dated 27 July

• 2002 BF25 from Arecibo (July 23.59 range & 24.58 range)

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NEOCP Activity  on 27 July '10

The MPC's NEO Confirmation Page has 17 listings: 14 new, 3 updated

When last checked at 2358 UTC today, the Minor Planet Center's Near Earth Object discovery Confirmation Page (NEOCP) had fourteen new and three updated listings. Of these, four were "one nighters." So far The Tracking News has counted a total of eighteen listings on the NEOCP at some point today.

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New MPECs  on 27 July '10

Minor Planet Electronic Circulars

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

• MPEC 2010-O36 time-stamped "06:09 UT" - Daily Orbit Update - see below
• MPEC 2010-O37 time-stamped "12:26 UT" - 2006 VC - see below
• MPEC 2010-O38 time-stamped "19:40 UT" - Observable Comets - see below
• MPEC 2010-O39 time-stamped "19:43 UT" - Distant Minor Planets - see below
• MPEC 2010-O40 time-stamped "19:48 UT" - Atens and Apollos - see below
• MPEC 2010-O41 time-stamped "19:48 UT" - Amors - see below
• MPEC 2010-O42 time-stamped "19:48 UT" - Unusual Minor Planets - see below
• MPEC 2010-O43 time-stamped "19:48 UT" - PHAs - see below
• MPEC 2010-O44 time-stamped "20:55 UT" - Comet P/2005 U1 = 2010 N2 (Read)

MPEC 2010-O44 - "20:55 UT" - Comet P/2005 U1 = 2010 N2 (Read)

• PK10N020   P/2010 N2 (q=2.360 AU, TP=2011 Mar. 10.67735 TT) from Mauna Kea (July 7.43-49p3 & 20.56-59p2)
• PK05U010   P/2005 U1 (Read) (q=2.365 AU, TP=2005 July 27.88961 TT)

MPEC 2010-O43 - "19:48 UT" - PHAs

MPEC 2010-O42 - "19:48 UT" - Unusual Minor Planets

MPEC 2010-O41 - "19:48 UT" - Amors

MPEC 2010-O40 - "19:48 UT" - Atens and Apollos

MPEC 2010-O39 - "19:43 UT" - Distant Minor Planets

MPEC 2010-O38 - "19:40 UT" - Observable Comets

MPEC 2010-O37 - "12:26 UT" - 2006 VC

• K06V00C   2006 VC (Earth MOID=8.0 LD, H=20.0 ~339m) from David Tholen's team on Mauna Kea (May 16.40-41p3 at R=22.8-9 & June 19.38-39p3 at R=23.4-5)

<< DOU on 27 July '10 >>  MPEC 2010-O36 - "06:09 UT" - Daily Orbit Update

• Observations of recently (no longer) risk-listed objects
• K10M01F   2010 MF1 (arc=38 days, H=19.5 ~426m) from Astronomical Research Obs. Westfield (July 26.09-10p4)
• Observations of other objects
• K10ED5C   2010 EC135 (arc=136 days, H=20.1 ~323m) from ARO Westfield (July 26.11-13p4)

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Observers  on 27 July '10

Three observing facilities appear in today's MPECs.

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Impact Risk Monitoring  on 27 July '10

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 27 July '10

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