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

August 2004 Contents Tuesday, 31 August 2004

• News briefs Fred Whipple + impact theory
• Risk monitoring – JPL has removed 2004 QA22

Sunday, 29 August 2004

• Cover – small object 2004 QF14 by Peter Birtwhistle
• Small objects – report for 23-29 August
  Observation summary
• News briefs – outlying NEOs & editorial note + bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS & JPL have removed 2004 QZ2 & 2004 QD14

Saturday, 28 August 2004

• Cover – comet C/2004 Q2 (Machholz) by Peter Birtwhistle
• News briefs – comet news + bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – JPL has posted 2004 QA22

Friday, 27 August 2004

• Cover – PHA 2004 QV16 by Francesco Manca
• Nuts & bolts by Marco Langbroek
• News briefs – Main Belt news, call for observations + bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – four objects removed today
  panel 2 – NEODyS has posted 2004 QB17

Thursday, 26 August 2004

• Cover – comet C/2004 Q1 (Tucker) discovery image by Roy Tucker
• Bits of luck by Roy Tucker
• News briefs – Australian event, Rosetta news & 2004 FU162 update
• Risk monitoring – four objects newly posted
  panel 2 – JPL has removed 2004 PP97

Wednesday, 25 August 2004

• Cover – 22 Kalliope with rotation of 22 (1) Linus from ESO VLT Yepun
• News briefs – comet news, radar news, FMOP discovery + bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS posts 2004 QJ7 & all 2004 QY2 VIs are removed

Tuesday, 24 August 2004

• Cover – view of Earth from 2004 FU162, animation frame by Pasquale Tricarico
• Small objects – report for 16-22 August
  Observation summary
• News briefs – 2004 FU162 update, meteor news + bit & pieces
• Risk monitoring – JPL has posted 2004 QJ7 & removed 2004 QA2, new SCN campaigns

Monday, 23 August 2004

• Cover – small object 2004 NK8 by Pepe Manteca
• More about 2004 FU162
  Other 2004 FU162 news
• News briefs – FMOP discoveries, meteor news + bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS has posted 2004 QY2 & 2004 QZ2 + JPL has posted 2004 FU162

Sunday, 22 August 2004

• Cover – Main Belter 3184 Raab with NGC 3628 by Peter Birtwhistle
• Closest by far – 2004 FU162 + Sleuthing in your own archive & Closest observed flyby
• News briefs – big NEO, unusual object + bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – JPL has posted 2004 QA2, 2004 QZ2 & 2004 QY2

Saturday, 21 August 2004

• Cover – C/2004 P1 (NEAT) by Peter Birtwhistle
• News briefs – meteor news, bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – no news

Friday, 20 August 2004

• Cover – Perseid meteor by Robert Haas
• Perseids 2004 by Marco Langbroek
• News briefs – sample returns, FMOP discoveries + rings & rogues
• Risk monitoring

Thursday, 19 August 2004

• News briefs – bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – 2004 QQ found in archive

Wednesday, 18 August 2004

• News briefs – Antarctic impact + bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – JPL posted & pulled 2004 QQ

Tuesday, 17 August 2004

• Cover – PHO 2004 QB by Robert Hutsebaut
• News briefs – meteor news, mission technology & impactor practice
  panel 2 – bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring NEODyS & JPL have posted 2004 PP97, problems at NEODyS

Monday, 16 August 2004

• News briefs – moons vs. comets, NEO missions & mission technology
• Risk monitoring – no news

Sunday, 15 August 2004

• Cover – small object 2004 PZ19 by Josep Julia Gomez, Robert Hutsebaut & Pepe Manteca
• Small objects – report for 9-15 August
  Observation summary
• Risk monitoring – 2004 PU42 updated

Saturday, 14 August 2004

• Cover – small object 2004 PU42 by Visnjan School of Astronomy NEO group
• Chasing 2004 PU42 by Reiner Stoss
• News briefs – naming & meteor news
• Risk monitoring – 2004 PU42 updated

Friday, 13 August 2004

• News briefs – bits & pieces, re-entry event
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS has posted 2004 PU42

Thursday, 12 August 2004

• Cover – NEO 2004 PT42 by Visnjan School of Astronomy NEO group
• Perseids report by Marco Langbroek
• News briefs – occultation news, extrasolar news, unusual object + bits & pieces,
• Risk monitoring – JPL has posted 2004 PU42

Wednesday, 11 August 2004

• Cover – sunset meteor from Jim Gamble's all-sky camera
• News briefs – mission technologies + bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – no news

Tuesday, 10 August 2004

• Cover – small object 2004 PZ19 by Visnjan School of Astronomy NEO group
• VSA 2004 by Reiner Stoss
• News briefs – meteor news, bits & pieces & small object 2004 PZ19
• Risk monitoring – no news

Monday, 9 August 2004

• News briefs – comet news, solar sailing, Xing-Ming Zhou, plus bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – no news

Sunday, 8 August 2004

• Cover – small object 2004 PJ by Robert Hutsebaut
• Small objects – report for 2-8 August
  Observation summary
• News briefs – meteor news, mission news, naming & Hubble news
• Risk monitoring – no news

Friday, 6 August 2004

• Cover – David Hardy's depiction of the Ulysses spacecraft crossing C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)'s ion tail
• News briefs – meteor news, space-based surveillance, bits & pieces
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS & JPL have pulled 2004 MO7, Wednesday JPL pulled 2004 OT11

Tuesday, 3 August 2004

• Cover – unusual object 2004 NN8 by John Broughton
• Meteor news – U.K. meteorite search, New Zealand meteors & more meteor news
• News briefs – mission news
• Risk monitoring – NEODyS removes 2004 OT11
  Monday monitoring – NEODyS pulls 2004 NL8
  

Sunday, 1 August 2004

• Cover – small NEO 54509 2000 PH5 by Pepe Manteca
• Small objects – report for 26 July – 1 August
  Observation summary
• Risk monitoring – 2004 NL8 & 2004 OT11 updated

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