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Contents  on 6 February '12

• Traffic Report -- no objects
• IAU Minor Planet Center
  • NEOCP Activity -- ten listings
  • New MPECs -- one MPEC
• Observers -- ten observers
• Impact Risk Monitoring -- nothing to report
• Chronology

Resources:

• Consolidated Risk Tables - the CRT page (archive)
    Of 439 risk-listed objects, 27 have had news in the last 31 days. Updated at 1533 UTC on 6 Feb.
  
• Earth's Busy Neighborhood close passer EBN Traffic Report
    No objects are known to be within ten LD of Earth today. Updated at 1711 UTC on 6 Feb.
• Ephemerides for risk-rated & nearby objects + potential mission destinations
• News image catalog
• News old archive & Small Objects Archive
• Object Links - mainly for radar targets & close passers - updated 27 Jan.
• Observing Campaigns

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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Traffic Report  on 6 February '12

No objects reported inside ten LD

No objects are reported flying inside ten lunar distances (LD) of Earth today. Next up, radar target 2011 CP4 arrives inside ten LD on February 22nd

This report was posted at 1534 UTC.

Notes: Ten LD has no astronomical significance but is a useful reporting boundary. Distances are interpreted by A/CC from JPL Horizons data. See also today's timeline plus current additional details, sky chart, and ephemerides.

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NEOCP Activity  on 6 February '12

The MPC's NEO Confirmation Page has 10 listings

When last checked at 2359 UTC today, the Minor Planet Center's Near Earth Object discovery Confirmation Page (NEOCP) had ten objects listed. Of these, six were "one nighters." So far The Tracking News has counted a total of fifteen listings on the NEOCP today.

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 6 February '12

Minor Planet Electronic Circulars

As of last check at 2359 UTC, there has been one MPEC posted today from the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

<< DOU on 6 Feb. '12 >>  MPEC 2012-C33 - "06:04 UT" - Daily Orbit Update

• Observation campaigns (radar support, potential mission destinations)
• 00433   433 Eros (1898 DQ) (radar) from Siegen Obs. (Jan. 31.95-98p5) and Eridanus Obs. (Feb. 1.96-98p4)
  -- Planetary radar schedules: Arecibo & Goldstone
• Observations of other asteroidal objects
• K12BC4C   2012 BC124 (i=41.5°, arc=6 days, H=19.7 ~389m) from Ka-Dar Obs. TAU Station (Feb. 4.93p4)
• K12B77E   2012 BE77 from the Spacewatch 1.8m telescope (Feb. 1.29p3)
• K12A11A   2012 AA11 (arc=22 days, H=20.1 ~323m) from TAU Sta. (Feb. 4.89-91p3)
• K11WD4V   2011 WV134 (Q=4.676 AU, arc=2 opp, H=17.1 ~1.29 km) from Pan-STARRS 1 (PS1) (Feb. 5.28-29p2)
• K09A00V   2009 AV (i=45.9°, arc=2 opp, H=17.9 ~891m) from Robert Holmes via Cerro Tololo Inter-American Obs. (CTIO) (Feb. 5.37-39p5)
• K08W13Z   2008 WZ13 (arc=2 opp, H=18.6 ~645m) from LINEAR (Feb. 5.14-19p4)
• K08A28V   2008 AV28 (arc=3 opp, H=19.5 ~426m) from Holmes/CTIO (Feb. 5.34-37p3)
• G3000   163000 2001 SW169 from Tomas Vorobjov via Kitt Peak Natl. Obs. (KPNO) (Feb. 5.37-42p6)
• G2120   162120 1998 SH36 from NEAT's Mt. Palomar telescope (2001 June 22.27-29p3)
• G2082   162082 1998 HL1 from NEAT's USAF Haleakala telescope (2005 April 20.40-43p3)
• D6923   136923 1998 JH2 from PS1 (Feb. 5.30-31p2)
• A1873   101873 1999 NC5 from PS1 (Feb. 5.44p2 & 5.49-50p2)
• 24475   24475 2000 VN2 from LINEAR (Feb. 5.15-20p4)
• 21277   21277 1996 TO5 from PS1 (Feb. 5.55-56p2)
• 06455   6455 1992 HE from PS1 (Feb. 5.58-59p2)

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Observers  on 6 February '12

Ten observers appear in today's MPEC.

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Impact Risk Monitoring  on 6 February '12

At last check (NEODyS and JPL at 2359 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 6 February '12

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