A/CC's January 2004
Major News About Minor Objects

January 2004 Contents Saturday, 31 January 2004

• Cover – 68 Leto and galaxy NGC 3628 by Robert Hutsebaut
• News briefs – surprise flyby, New Horizons, Deep Impact, Rosetta & new comet C/2004 B1 (LINEAR)
• Risk monitoring – JPL has posted 2004 BG86 while it & NEODyS have removed 2004 BA75 plus JPL has posted 2004 BL86, 2004 BZ74 & 2004 BE68

Friday, 30 January 2004

• Cover – 2003 YG118 by Rafael Ferrando
• News briefs – oxygen isotopes, ESO VLTI news & Project Constellation
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS has posted 2004 BA75 & 2004 BZ74

Thursday, 29 January 2004

• Cover – Robert Verish photo of 4-wheeler asteroid sample return mission in northern Nevada
• Small objects – for 19-25 January
• News briefs – meteorite chemistry, Stardust, cover details, readings & Hubble reprieve?
• Risk monitoring–NEODyS has posted 2004 BE68 & removed 2004 BU58 while JPL has removed 2004 BV1 & 2004 BO41 plus late news: JPL has added 2004 BA75 & removed 2004 BW58

Wednesday, 28 January 2004

• Cover – 511 Davida from the 10m Keck telescope with adaptive optics
• News briefs – spacecraft computers, observing moving objects with Spitzer, & Hubble + NASA
• Risk monitoring

Tuesday, 27 January 2004

• Cover – 3 Juno from 2.7m Hooker Telescope at Mt. Wilson with adaptive optics
• News briefs – crater study & Hubble news
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS has removed 2004 BV1

Monday, 26 January 2004

• Cover – 2002 NY40 in infrared from 4.2m William Herschel Telescope with adaptive optics
• News briefs – Hubble news, readings about Rosetta & Vulcanoids, amateur honors, Juno meteorites & meteor radar
  part 2 – archive work finds big NEO & human NEO missions
• Risk monitoring – four new SCN campaigns & JPL has posted 2004 BO41

Sunday, 25 January 2004

• Cover – Boeing artist's concept of NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle in an interplanetary configuration
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS has posted 2004 BU58, JPL has posted 2004 BW58, both have removed 2004 BG41 & JPL has re-posted 2003 YG118

Saturday, 24 January 2004

• Cover – 2004 BH41 by Robert Hutsebaut
• News briefs – New Horizons news
  Cover story – details about today's "cover"
  part 2 – fireball updates, Hubble news & spacecraft computers
  
• Risk monitoring – JPL has posted 2004 BN41 & NEODyS has posted 2004 BG41

Friday, 23 January 2004

• Cover – D/1999 S4 (LINEAR) by Rafael Ferrando (disrupted post-perihelion)
• Hubble news – reaction builds
• News briefs – SOHO, Vulcanoid search, Hubble news, NASA funding & comet P/2003 SQ215
• Risk monitoring – JPL has posted 2004 BG41

Thursday, 22 January 2004

• Cover – 2004 YM137 with optical flare by Francesco Manca and Augusto Testa
• News briefs – radar news, crater discovery, Hubble news & German fireball update
  part 2 – Colorado fireball update & NASA refocus
• Risk monitoring – only 2004 BV1 remains listed

Wednesday, 21 January 2004

• Cover – 2004 BV18 by Robert Hutsebaut
• German event by Sebastian Hoenig + news links
• News briefs – Deep Impact, Kansas City event, Meteorite find & Hubble rescue?
  part 2 – dark skies, more about 2004 BV18 & Spanish fireball update, pieces found?
• Risk monitoring – four new observing campaigns

Tuesday, 20 January 2004

• Cover – D/1999 S4 (LINEAR) by Rafael Ferrando (pre-perihelion)
• FMO Project discovery – 2004 BV18 found by Spacewatch online volunteer
• News briefs – Rosetta & Stardust
• Risk monitoring – JPL has removed 2004 BY1

Monday, 19 January 2004

• Cover – 2004 BY1 by Peter Birtwhistle
• News briefs – new-found NEOs & Hubble news
• Risk monitoring – JPL & NEODyS have posted 2004 BJ11 & NEODyS has posted 2004 BE11, BV1 & BW1

Sunday, 18 January 2004

• Cover – 2003 RU11 uncertainty map by Peter Birtwhistle
• Small objects – for 11-18 January
• News briefs – comet, readings & Deep Impact
• Risk monitoring – JPL has removed 2003 YG118 & has posted 2004 BY1 & 2004 BV1

Saturday, 17 January 2004

• Cover – C/2003 T3 (Tabur) by David Higgins
• News briefs – Stardust, Rosetta & NASA funding
• Risk monitoring

Friday, 16 January 2004

• Cover – Roach Dry Lake meteorite find by Robert Verish
• News briefs
  – C/2003 WT42 (LINEAR) & meteor news
  – Spanish fireball update by Marco Langbroek
• Risk monitoring

Thursday, 15 January 2004

• Cover – C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) by Pepe Manteca
• NASA funding
• News briefs – new-found near-Earth objects & site news: call for "cover" images
• Risk monitoring

Wednesday, 14 January 2004

• Cover – 57P/du Toit-Neujmin-Delporte breakup by Yan Fernandez
• News briefs – NASA refocus & NEO statistics
• Risk monitoring

Tuesday, 13 January 2004

• Cover – Main Belt asteroid 691 Lehigh and the Crab Nebula by Robert Hutsebaut
• News briefs – fireballs in Spain & Colorado
  part 2 – comet P/2004 A1 & Spitzer news
• Risk monitoring

Monday, 12 January 2004

• Cover – 2003 YG118 by Peter Birtwhistle
• News briefs – Perkins kicks in, Rosetta, asteroid taxonomy & comet identification
• Risk monitoring

Sunday, 11 January 2004

• Cover – 2004 AD flies through
• Small objects for 5-11 January
• News briefs – Stardust reading & first amateur-discovered binary?
• Risk monitoring

Saturday, 10 January 2004

• Cover – C/2002 V1 (NEAT) by Peter Birtwhistle
• News briefs – DOU browsing, reading & meteor infrasound
• Risk monitoring

Friday, 9 January 2004

• Cover – 81P/Wild 2 images seen in R. Mark Elowitz's sharpened version of a fuzzy Stardust photo & A/CC's improved low-resolution animation
• Spanish fireball update by Marco Langbroek – fragment found?
• News briefs – SOHO, Main Belt & more about the cover
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS & JPL have removed 2004 AF

Thursday, 8 January 2004

• Cover – 2004 AD by Robert Hutsebaut
• News briefs – Stardust images, 2004 AD & Hayabusa
  – 2P/Encke at Mercury by Piero Sicoli
  – Spanish fireball update by Marco Langbroek
• Risk monitoring

Wednesday, 7 January 2004

• Cover – 2002 NY40 by Rafael Ferrando
• News briefs – comet ponderings, early Solar System, Stardust, Hayabusa, radar news plus numberings & namings
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS & JPL have removed 2003 YH136

Tuesday, 6 January 2004

• Cover – 2003 EM1 & C/2001 RX14 by Crni Vrh Observatory
• Stardust post-encounter – new info & photo
• News briefs – Rosetta launch scheduled, comets everywhere, Spanish fireballs, EKBO news & magnitudes aren't absolute
• Risk monitoring

Monday, 5 January 2004

• Cover story by Reiner Stoss
• Spanish fireballs
• News briefs – Stardust & EKBO binary
• Risk monitoring – late news: JPL has posted 2004 AF

Sunday, 4 January 2004

• Small objects – A/CC's seven-day report of discovery and follow-up of Earth's smallest neighbors
• News briefs – Spanish fireballs, comet news, Stardust & Iran meteor impact?
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS and JPL have removed 2003 YK118

Saturday, 3 January 2004

• News briefs – Stardust, comet precovery, comet updates & meteorite find
• Risk monitoring – JPL has re-posted 2003 YD45

Friday, 2 January 2004

• Stardust at 81P/Wild 2
• News briefs – Iran meteor impact? & SOHO comets
• Risk monitoring

Thursday, 1 January 2004

• News briefs – Year of the Comet, Stardust & NEO observatory projects
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS & JPL have removed 2003 YE45 & YG118 plus JPL has removed 2003 YD45