Meteor news:  Yale Daily News has a nice item today about Bob Verish's “Los Angeles” Mars meteorites and the dating method newly applied to them. This was also told about in a Yale University news release Monday.

Bits & pieces:  BBC has a report today, “Astronomers chart asteroid threat,” telling about UKAPP at Queens University Belfast using Faulkes telescopes on the other side of the world. See also October 13th news.

At last check a Daily Orbit Update MPEC hasn't been posted by the Minor Planet Center today.

Risk monitoring 28 Oct.

JPL has posted 2004 UV1, which was announced today in MPEC 2004-U57 as discovered on Monday, October 25th by the Siding Spring Survey (SSS) in Australia, which followed it over a period of 5.377 hours. The discovery was confirmed today by Gianluca Masi's team with the Southern TIE (SoTIE) remote-controlled telescope in Chile and by SSS. (Neither set of confirmation observations was made during the lunar eclipse that happened early today UT).

JPL puts this object's size at 0.975 km. (0.61 mile), and has the first highly preliminary impact solution six years from now on December 6th. (An impact solution, or “virtual impactor,” is not a prediction but rather a possibility that hasn't been eliminated yet, and most solutions are soon removed with further observation.)