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Contents  on 23 November '07

• IAU Minor Planet Center
  • NEOCP Activity -- nine listings: 7 new, 2 updated
  • New MPECs -- three MPECs
  • Observers -- ten observing facilities
• Impact Risk Monitoring -- nothing to report
• Chronology

Resources:

• Consolidated Risk Tables - the CRT page
• Earth's Busy Neighborhood Traffic Report
• Ephemerides for risk-rated and nearby objects
• Old & new CRT Archive
• Old News Archive & Small Objects Archive

The latest news: framed access (best),  RSS news feed (flags updates), or redirection - Note: A/CC has a main Web site and a backup site, which now has its own backup RSS news feed.

Navigation tips: Use the << and >> arrows on the menus for each regular section (Observers, Risks, etc.) to move to the previous and next day's news for that section. Use the Index menu item to access specific days this year through a calendar interface. And use the all-up news archive to access news from any time since A/CC began in early 2002. To keep track of what's new each day, watch the Chronology section.

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NEOCP Activity  on 23 November '07

The MPC's NEO Confirmation Page has 9 listings: 7 new, 2 updated

When last checked at 2354 UTC today, the Minor Planet Center's NEO discovery Confirmation Page (NEOCP) had seven new and two updated listings. All of these were "one nighters."

To learn how observers use the NEOCP, see the Practical guide on how to observe NEOCP object by Birtwhistle et al. at Suno Observatory.

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New MPECs  on 23 November '07

Minor Planet Electronic Circulars

As of last check at 2354 UTC, there have been three MPECs issued today from the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• MPEC 2007-W61 time-stamped "07:05 UT" - Daily Orbit Update - see below
• MPEC 2007-W62 time-stamped "20:19 UT" - 2007 VZ30 - see below
• MPEC 2007-W63 time-stamped "20:54 UT" - Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini)

MPEC 2007-W63 - "20:54 UT" - Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini)

• CK07W010   C/2007 W1 (i=10.4°, q=0.720 AU, TP=2008 June 14.300 TT) from the Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLS) (Nov. 20.48-52p8 & 21.49-54p12), RAS Obs. Mayhill (Nov. 21.48-50p2), and La Silla (Nov. 23.34-36p10)

MPEC 2007-W62 - "20:19 UT" - 2007 VZ30

• K07V30Z   2007 VZ30 (H=21.2 ~195m) from NEAT's Mt. Palomar telescope (2002 Jan. 11.43p1, 2002 Jan. 11.50p1, 2002 Jan. 11.56p1, 2002 Feb. 4.34-38p3, 2002 Feb. 13.24p1 & 2002 Feb. 13.28p1)

<< DOU on 23 Nov. '07 >>  MPEC 2007-W61 - "07:05 UT" - Daily Orbit Update

• Observations of recently (no longer) risk-listed objects
• K07T71D   2007 TD71 (i=49.8°, arc=40 days, H=18.5 ~676m) from the Siding Spring Survey (SSS) (Nov. 22.51p1)
• Observations of other objects
• K07W04W   2007 WW4 (arc=3 days, H=19.6 ~407m) from SSS (Nov. 22.56-57p2)
• K07U06S   2007 US6 (arc=3 opp, H=18.3 ~741m) from New Millennium Obs. (Nov. 8.01-04p6)
• K07T23C   2007 TC23 (Q=4.531 AU, arc=42 days, H=20.6 ~257m) from MLS (Nov. 21.44-45p4)
• K07S00J   2007 SJ (arc=2 opp, H=16.5 ~1.70 km) from program code "&" using the Palomar Digitized Sky Survey (1990 Oct. 14.20p1 & 1990 Oct. 14.25p1)
• K07L32R   2007 LR32 (arc=177 days, H=17.2 ~1.23 km) from New Millennium Obs. (Nov. 7.88-92p6 & 9.90-94p5)
• K05B02E   2005 BE2 (arc=2 opp, H=18.2 ~776m) from SSS (2005 Sept. 9.53p3)
• H0903   170903 2004 WS2 from the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) (Nov. 21.26-27p8)
• H0891   170891 2004 TY16 from CSS (Nov. 21.36-38p8)
• G9675   169675 2002 JM97 from the Spacewatch 0.9m telescope (Nov. 17.35-37p4)
• E3678   143678 2003 SA224 from New Millennium Obs. (Nov. 8.01-05p6)
• D7084   137084 1998 XS16 from New Millennium Obs. (Nov. 9.84-86p4)
• 99907   99907 1989 VA from New Millennium Obs. (Nov. 7.90-93p6 & 9.92-95p6)
• 86324   86324 1999 WA2 from New Millennium Obs. (Nov. 9.82-86p6)
• 04954   4954 Eric (1990 SQ) from Montana Blanca Obs. (Nov. 22.81-84p3)
• 03553   3553 Mera (1985 JA) from New Millennium Obs. (Nov. 8.02p2)
• 02212   2212 Hephaistos (1978 SB) from New Millennium Obs. (Nov. 7.95-99p6 & 9.97-98p2)

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Observers  on 23 November '07

Ten observing facilities appear in today's MPECs.

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Impact Risk Monitoring  on 23 November '07

At last check (NEODyS and JPL at 2354 UTC) there was no risk monitoring news to report yet today. See the CRT for activity in the last month.

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Chronology  on 23 November '07

Times are UTC for when the items were noted or added by The Tracking News.