Arecibo Images a Triple Near Earth Asteroid - NEO!

Electronic Telegram No. 1254
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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(153591) 2001 SN_263
M. C. Nolan, E. S. Howell, Arecibo Observatory; L. A. M. Benner,
S. J. Ostro, and J. D. Giorgini, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; M. W. Busch,
California Institute of Technology; L. M. Carter and R. F. Anderson,
Smithsonian Institution; C. Magri, University of Maine; D. B. Campbell and
J. L. Margot, Cornell University; and R. Vervack, Johns Hopkins University,
report that Arecibo radar delay-Doppler images (2380 MHz, 12.6 cm) obtained
on 2008 Feb. 12 show that minor planet (153591) is a triple system.
Based on range extents at 75-m resolution, preliminary estimates of average
diameters are 2 km, 1 km, and 400 m for the three components.


NOTE: These 'Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams' are sometimes
superseded by text appearing later in the printed IAU Circulars.

(C) Copyright 2008 CBAT
2008 February 12 (CBET 1254) Daniel W. E. Green

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http://www.naic.edu/~pradar/asteroids/2001SN263/

Anyone wanting to defund or shut down this vital radiotelescope asset is
either an idiot, or needs to have their heads examined.

kT wrote:
[snip]

report that Arecibo radar delay-Doppler images (2380 MHz, 12.6 cm) obtained
on 2008 Feb. 12 show that minor planet (153591) is a triple system.
Based on range extents at 75-m resolution, preliminary estimates of average
diameters are 2 km, 1 km, and 400 m for the three components.
[snip]

Anyone wanting to defund or shut down this vital radiotelescope asset is
either an idiot, or needs to have their heads examined.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/15637782.html
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/asteroidmoons.html

Cute but inconsequential.

--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/lajos.htm#a2

Uncle Al wrote:
kT wrote:
[snip]

report that Arecibo radar delay-Doppler images (2380 MHz, 12.6 cm) obtained
on 2008 Feb. 12 show that minor planet (153591) is a triple system.
Based on range extents at 75-m resolution, preliminary estimates of average
diameters are 2 km, 1 km, and 400 m for the three components.
[snip]

Anyone wanting to defund or shut down this vital radiotelescope asset is
either an idiot, or needs to have their heads examined.

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/15637782.html
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/astro/asteroidmoons.html

Cute but inconsequential.

But it is yet another example of something.

If stuff like this is supposedly hard to come by, how come we are always
coming by this stuff? Don't even get me started on extrasolar planets.

Nope. I'm with Dallas Abbot on this one.

On Feb 15, 11:17 am, kT wrote:
Electronic Telegram No. 1254
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
M.S. 18, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
IAUSUBS@... or FAX 617-495-7231 (subscriptions)
CBAT@... (science)
URLhttp://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/cbat.html

(153591) 2001 SN_263
M. C. Nolan, E. S. Howell, Arecibo Observatory; L. A. M. Benner,
S. J. Ostro, and J. D. Giorgini, Jet Propulsion Laboratory; M. W. Busch,
California Institute of Technology; L. M. Carter and R. F. Anderson,
Smithsonian Institution; C. Magri, University of Maine; D. B. Campbell and
J. L. Margot, Cornell University; and R. Vervack, Johns Hopkins University,
report that Arecibo radar delay-Doppler images (2380 MHz, 12.6 cm) obtained
on 2008 Feb. 12 show that minor planet (153591) is a triple system.
Based on range extents at 75-m resolution, preliminary estimates of average
diameters are 2 km, 1 km, and 400 m for the three components.

NOTE: These 'Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams' are sometimes
superseded by text appearing later in the printed IAU Circulars.

(C) Copyright 2008 CBAT
2008 February 12 (CBET 1254) Daniel W. E. Green

-----

http://www.naic.edu/~pradar/asteroids/2001SN263/

Anyone wanting to defund or shut down this vital radiotelescope asset is
either an idiot, or needs to have their heads examined.

I agree that Arecibo should be kept and even upgraded to whatever
extent is affordably doable.

However, of radar like except X-ray images that should outperform
Hubble resolution by a million fold are within the near future,
although perhaps a terrestrial gamma transmitting and gamma receiving
telescope could best replace Arecibo at 10% the annual cost of
sustaining those old but nicely proven methods that have somewhat
limited resolution.
.. - Brad Guth

"BradGuth" wrote
I agree that Arecibo should be kept and even upgraded to whatever
extent is affordably doable.

AmeriKKKa dropping out of the Clean Coal initiative because of funding
issues
AmeriKKKa dropping out of ITER due to lack of funding
AmeriKKKa dropping out of stem cell research on Religious grounds.
AmeriKKKa soon dropping out of participation in the space station.
AmeriKKKa defunding the NOAA.
AmeriKKKa firing 600 reserachers at SLAC due to lack of funding.
AmeriKKKa dropping out of the ILC due to lack of funding.
FirmiLab loosing 200 scientists with the remainder told to take an unpaid
week of vacation every 2 months.

Scientists now beginning to exit the failed AmeriKKKan state for more work
in the socialist states.

NASA shelves climate satellites
Environmental science may suffer
By Beth Daley, Globe Staff | June 9, 2006

NASA is canceling or delaying a number of satellites designed to give
scientists critical information on the earth's changing climate and
environment.


The space agency has shelved a $200 million satellite mission headed by a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor that was designed to measure
soil moisture -- a key factor in helping scientists understand the impact of
global warming and predict droughts and floods. The Deep Space Climate
Observatory, intended to observe climate factors such as solar radiation,
ozone, clouds, and water vapor more comprehensively than existing
satellites, also has been canceled.

And in its 2007 budget, NASA proposes significant delays in a global
precipitation measuring mission to help with weather predictions, as well as
the launch of a satellite designed to increase the timeliness and accuracy
of severe weather forecasts and improve climate models.

The changes come as NASA prioritizes its budget to pay for completion of the
International Space Station and the return of astronauts to the moon by
2020 -- a goal set by President Bush that promises a more distant and
arguably less practical scientific payoff. Ultimately, scientists say, the
delays and cancellations could make hurricane predictions less accurate,
create gaps in long-term monitoring of weather, and result in less clarity
about the earth's hydrological systems, which play an integral part in
climate change.

``Today, when the need for information about the planet is more important
than ever, this process of building understanding through increasingly
powerful observations . . . is at risk of collapse," said Berrien Moore III,
director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the
University of New Hampshire.

Moore is cochairman of a National Research Council committee that will
recommend NASA's future earth science agenda later this year. It is unclear,
however, whether NASA will follow those recommendations.

``NASA has canceled, scaled back, or delayed all of the planned earth
observing missions," he said.

Despite NASA's best-known role as a space agency, one of its key missions is
to study the earth. Scientists collect data through ground- and space-based
observatories using instruments that can sense heat and through which they
can see with exquisite detail from many miles up. In recent years, these
missions have increased in importance and visibility as global temperatures
rise and scientists rush to better understand the phenomenon and the role of
humans in it.

While NASA is proposing similarly deep cuts to other important science
programs such as astrobiology -- the search for life in space -- the earth
science mission cancellations and delays take on greater significance, some
scientists say, given recent allegations by a top NASA researcher and other
government scientists that the Bush administration tried to silence their
warnings about global warming

Of what you report is 100% true, and most likely the best available
truth about our resident LLPOF warlord(GW Bush) doing nasty sorts of
things in order to moderate over the scientific truths about global
warming, because his fossil oil, coal and natural gas friends are not
cutting emissions, and energy cost is soaring to boot.

However, since when hasn't our cold-war perpetrating government lied
to us? (we're also talking of trillions spent per decade)

What do you think our NASA/Apollo rusemasters with "the right stuff"
really accomplished to start with?
.. - Brad Guth


On Feb 15, 10:08 pm, "V-for-Vendicar"
wrote:
"BradGuth" wrote

I agree that Arecibo should be kept and even upgraded to whatever
extent is affordably doable.

AmeriKKKa dropping out of the Clean Coal initiative because of funding
issues
AmeriKKKa dropping out of ITER due to lack of funding
AmeriKKKa dropping out of stem cell research on Religious grounds.
AmeriKKKa soon dropping out of participation in the space station.
AmeriKKKa defunding the NOAA.
AmeriKKKa firing 600 reserachers at SLAC due to lack of funding.
AmeriKKKa dropping out of the ILC due to lack of funding.
FirmiLab loosing 200 scientists with the remainder told to take an unpaid
week of vacation every 2 months.

Scientists now beginning to exit the failed AmeriKKKan state for more work
in the socialist states.

NASA shelves climate satellites
Environmental science may suffer
By Beth Daley, Globe Staff | June 9, 2006

NASA is canceling or delaying a number of satellites designed to give
scientists critical information on the earth's changing climate and
environment.

The space agency has shelved a $200 million satellite mission headed by a
Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor that was designed to measure
soil moisture -- a key factor in helping scientists understand the impact of
global warming and predict droughts and floods. The Deep Space Climate
Observatory, intended to observe climate factors such as solar radiation,
ozone, clouds, and water vapor more comprehensively than existing
satellites, also has been canceled.

And in its 2007 budget, NASA proposes significant delays in a global
precipitation measuring mission to help with weather predictions, as well as
the launch of a satellite designed to increase the timeliness and accuracy
of severe weather forecasts and improve climate models.

The changes come as NASA prioritizes its budget to pay for completion of the
International Space Station and the return of astronauts to the moon by
2020 -- a goal set by President Bush that promises a more distant and
arguably less practical scientific payoff. Ultimately, scientists say, the
delays and cancellations could make hurricane predictions less accurate,
create gaps in long-term monitoring of weather, and result in less clarity
about the earth's hydrological systems, which play an integral part in
climate change.

``Today, when the need for information about the planet is more important
than ever, this process of building understanding through increasingly
powerful observations . . . is at risk of collapse," said Berrien Moore III,
director of the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the
University of New Hampshire.

Moore is cochairman of a National Research Council committee that will
recommend NASA's future earth science agenda later this year. It is unclear,
however, whether NASA will follow those recommendations.

``NASA has canceled, scaled back, or delayed all of the planned earth
observing missions," he said.

Despite NASA's best-known role as a space agency, one of its key missions is
to study the earth. Scientists collect data through ground- and space-based
observatories using instruments that can sense heat and through which they
can see with exquisite detail from many miles up. In recent years, these
missions have increased in importance and visibility as global temperatures
rise and scientists rush to better understand the phenomenon and the role of
humans in it.

While NASA is proposing similarly deep cuts to other important science
programs such as astrobiology -- the search for life in space -- the earth
science mission cancellations and delays take on greater significance, some
scientists say, given recent allegations by a top NASA researcher and other
government scientists that the Bush administration tried to silence their
warnings about global warming

On Feb 15, 12:15 pm, "V-for-Vendicar"
wrote:
"Eric Chomko" wrote

...so you can use it as an American penal colony!

AmeriKKKa is already a penal colony - with over 3 million AmeriKKKans
locked away in it's AmeriKKKan Gulag.

There's at least another million inmates we're not even talking about,
plus DoD, MI5/CIA inmates that never get counted. Go figure.
.. - Brad Guth

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PAT

wrote:
Anyone wanting to defund or shut down this vital radiotelescope asset is
either an idiot, or needs to have their heads examined.


Definitely agree, although it looks like we're in for a devestating
comet shower rather than a single large comet. Commets seem to
periodically hit earth, and we're FAR overdue. See:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/14...-and-Evolution

Anyone wanting to defund or shut down this vital radiotelescope asset is
either an idiot, or needs to have their heads examined.

Definitely agree, although it looks like we're in for a devestating
comet shower rather than a single large comet. Commets seem to
periodically hit earth, and we're FAR overdue. See:
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/14...-and-Evolution

On Feb 16, 6:31*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
THAT SITE WILL ATTEMPT TO DOWNLOAD SOMETHING THAT WILL SHUT DOWN YOUR
BROWSER.
DON'T GO TO IT!

PAT

Uh... dude, you're a liar. Open the site in another browser if you
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the site.

So-Crates