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Aug 7, 2020

I am working on getting a website The Asteroid News up and running

 I am working on getting a website the Asteroid News up and running. There is a need for very high quality researches, writers, editors, web editors, coders, databases, etc. info(AT)theasteroidnews(dot)com

Jul 22, 2020

The NEO 2020 NK1 On 2020-07-21 From Siding Spring Observatory Australia.

The NEO 2020 NK1 Has Been Rated Torino Impact Hazard Scale 1 this happens a few times a year. The current The NEO 2020 NK1 Has Been Rated Torino Impact Hazard Scale 1 this happens a few times a year. The current Torino Scale state for 1 " A routine discovery in which a pass near Earth is predicted, that poses no unusual level of danger. Current calculations show the chance of collision is extremely unlikely with no cause for public attention or public concern. New telescopic observations very likely will lead to reassignment to Level 0."  I in order to help lower uncertainty I did an imaging run with itelescope.net's T30 in itelescope.net
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The NEO 2020 NK1 on 2020-07-21 from Siding Spring Observatory Australia - MPC Q62 using  T30 (0.50-m f/6.8 reflector + CCD) a stack of 15 - 20 second luminance BIN2 images . By Steven M. Tilley
The NEO 2020 NK1 on 2020-07-21from Siding Spring Observatory Australia - MPC Q62 using T30 (0.50-m f/6.8 reflector + CCD) a stack of 15 - 20 second luminance BIN2 images . By Steven M. Tilley
The NEO 2020 NK1 on 2020-07-21 from Siding Spring Observatory Australia - MPC Q62 using T30 (0.50-m f/6.8 reflector + CCD) a stack of 15 - 20 second luminance BIN2 images . By Steven M. Tilley
Perihelion 2020 Sep 21.088437 +/- 0.0701 TT =  2:07:21 (JD 2459113.588437)
Epoch 2020 Jul 21.0 TT = JDT 2459051.5   Earth MOID: 0.0027   Ve: 0.0539
M 322.85838324 +/- 0.24            (J2000 ecliptic)          Find_Orb
n   0.59820505 +/- 0.00329          Peri.  107.84849 +/- 0.10
a   1.39498433 +/- 0.00511          Node   311.10569 +/- 0.006
e   0.6474844 +/- 0.0012              Incl.   45.46161 +/- 0.08
P   1.65/601.79d           H 19.0   G  0.15   U  8.9 
q 0.49175368 +/- 0.000137    Q 2.29821498 +/- 0.0103
From 41 observations 2020 July 13-21; mean residual 0".18


Background
(as of 2020-07-21 ) 
(Check links for Updates)
  • (474) Mount John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand.
  • (E10) Siding Spring-Faulkes Telescope South, Australia/NSW.
  • (J04) ESA Optical Ground Station, Tenerife , Canary   Islands (Spain).
  • (Q59) Siding Spring-LCO Clamshell {#}2  Australia/NSW.
  • (T05) ATLAS-HKO, Haleakala, US/Hawaii.  Observer
  • (T08) ATLAS-MLO, Mauna Loa,US/Hawaii.  Observers
  • (W88) Slooh.com Chile Observatory, La Dehesa,Chile.
  • (Z84) Calar Alto-Schmidt, Spain. 
  • Perihelion Distance: 0.49 AU
  • Aphelion Distance: 2.28 AU
  • Earth MOID: 0.00275208 AU (1.071 Lunar Distance) 64.55 Earth radii
  • Close-Approach to Earth:  2020-Jul-31 Minimum Distance  0.0544283775663102(AU) 21.182 Lunar Distance (LD)
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Jul 21, 2020

The NEO 2020 NK1 Has Been Rated Torino Impact Hazard Scale 1 -- Normal (Green Zone)

The NEO 2020 NK1 Has Been Rated Torino Impact Hazard Scale 1 this happens a few times a year. The current Torino Scale state for 1 " A routine discovery in which a pass near Earth is predicted, that poses no unusual level of danger. Current calculations show the chance of collision is extremely unlikely with no cause for public attention or public concern. New telescopic observations very likely will lead to reassignment to Level 0."  2020 NK1 just need more observations.

Artist's concept of a near-Earth object. ImageCourtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

Perihelion 2020 Sep 21.139924 +/- 0.224 TT =  3:21:29 (JD 2459113.639924)
Epoch 2020 Jul 17.0 TT = JDT 2459047.5   Earth MOID: 0.0027   Ve: 0.0545
M 320.28294890 +/- 0.8              (J2000 ecliptic)          Find_Orb
n   0.60050040 +/- 0.0106           Peri.  107.92176 +/- 0.35
a   1.39142727 +/- 0.0164           Node   311.10237 +/- 0.024
e   0.6466292 +/- 0.00384           Incl.   45.40097 +/- 0.25
P   1.64/599.49d           H 19.0   G  0.15   U  9.7
q 0.49168968 +/- 0.000482    Q 2.29116486 +/- 0.0332
From 29 observations 2020 July 13-19; mean residual 0".18
Background
(as of 2020-07-20 ) 
(Check links for Updates)
  • (474) Mount John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand.
  • (E10) Siding Spring-Faulkes Telescope South, Australia/NSW.
  • (T05) ATLAS-HKO, Haleakala, US/Hawaii.  Observer
  • (T08) ATLAS-MLO, Mauna Loa,US/Hawaii.  Observers
  • (W88) Slooh.com Chile Observatory, La Dehesa,Chile.
  • (Z84) Calar Alto-Schmidt, Spain. 
  • Perihelion Distance: 0.49 AU
  • Aphelion Distance: 2.28 AU
  • Earth MOID: 0.00278361 AU (1.083 Lunar Distance) 65.29 Earth radii
  • Close-Approach to Earth:  2020-Jul-31 Minimum Distance  0.052769696480622 (AU) 20.536 Lunar Distance (LD)
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Jul 17, 2020

2018 SV13... "the object is not real"

There has been some media hub ba over 2018 SV13 Update on 2020 July 17 at 14:31 UT the Minor Planet Center Issued "MPEC 2020-O10 : RETRACTION OF 2018 SV13" .. 2018 SV13 " … the object is not real..." see https://minorplanetcenter.net/mpec/K20/K20O10.html

 Image edited by Steven M. Tilley  see the original (public domain) image Planetoid crashing into primordial Earth  at  Donald Davis' official site

Jul 2, 2020

0:00 / 4:08 Using Find orb and Guide9 To find the impact location of The NEO 2008 TC



Using Find_orb and Guide9 To find the impact location of The NEO 2008 TC3. Credits The Observations of 2008 TC3 was obtained from the The Minor Planet Center (MPC) https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=2008+TC3 The data was examine with Find_Orb Orbit determination software - Project Pluto http://www.projectpluto.com/find_orb.htm Text editing done with MS Notepad The impact.tdf graphic was done with MS Paint. The Map was done with Guide9 https://www.projectpluto.com/guide9b.htm 2008TC3-groundpath-rev Wikimedia Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_TC3#/media/File:2008TC3-groundpath-rev.png Music Way Out West by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: http://www.twinmusicom.org Created using Pinnacle Studio Steven M. Tilley http://lagniappeobserving.com A Link to the files MPCOrb.dat, state.txt, and virtual.txt https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15P5YnrNr-BfhlFHWtoDtwV9xaITauqci?usp=sharing