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Contents  on 8 May '08

• IAU Minor Planet Center
  • NEOCP Activity -- six listings: 3 new, 3 updated
  • New MPECs -- seven MPECs
• Observers -- 29 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

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NEOCP Activity  on 8 May '08

The MPC's NEO Confirmation Page has 6 listings: 3 new, 3 updated

When last checked at 2356 UTC today, the Minor Planet Center's NEO discovery Confirmation Page (NEOCP) had three new and three updated listings. Of these, three were "one nighters." So far The Tracking News has counted a total of sixteen objects listed on the NEOCP at some point today.

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 8 May '08

Minor Planet Electronic Circulars

As of last check at 2357 UTC, there have been seven MPECs issued today from the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

• MPEC 2008-J41 time-stamped "06:07 UT" - Daily Orbit Update - see below
• MPEC 2008-J42 time-stamped "15:38 UT" - 2008 JP14 - see below
• MPEC 2008-J43 time-stamped "15:42 UT" - 2008 JQ14 - see below
• MPEC 2008-J44 time-stamped "15:46 UT" - 2008 JR14 - see below
• MPEC 2008-J45 time-stamped "21:46 UT" - 2008 JS19 - see below
• MPEC 2008-J46 time-stamped "21:55 UT" - 2008 JT19 - see below
• MPEC 2008-J47 time-stamped "23:29 UT" - 2008 JV19

MPEC 2008-J47 - "23:29 UT" - 2008 JV19

• K08J19V   2008 JV19 (Earth MOID=0.4 LD, H=20.8 ~234m) was discovered at 0745 UT on 8 May by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS), which observed it at May 8.32-38p8. The discovery was confirmed by Guidestar Obs. (May 8.88-90p3), New Millennium Obs. (May 8.88-90p5), Schiaparelli Obs. (May 8.90-91p3), Drebach Obs. (May 8.91-92p5), Wildberg Obs. (May 8.92p3), and Farra d'Isonzo Obs. (May 8.92-95p3).

MPEC 2008-J46 - "21:55 UT" - 2008 JT19

• K08J19T   2008 JT19 (H=19.9 ~355m) was discovered at 0435 UT on 7 May by the Spacewatch 0.9m telescope, which observed it at May 7.19-22p3. The discovery was confirmed by Great Shefford Obs. (May 7.00-03p2), Jim Bedient via Faulkes Telescope North (May 8.35-37p3), and KLENOT (May 8.88-90p6).

MPEC 2008-J45 - "21:46 UT" - 2008 JS19

• K08J19S   2008 JS19 (H=18.7 ~616m) was discovered at 0605 UT on 8 May by CSS, which observed it at May 8.25-32p8. The discovery was confirmed by Grasslands Obs. (May 8.33p2), Gelenau Obs. (May 8.84-85p2), New Millennium Obs. (May 8.87-88p6), Farra d'Isonzo Obs. (May 8.87-88p2), and Drebach Obs. (May 8.88-89p5).

MPEC 2008-J44 - "15:46 UT" - 2008 JR14

• K08J14R   2008 JR14 (small asteroid, H=24.9 ~35m) was discovered at 1219 UT on 6 May by the Siding Spring Survey (SSS), which observed it at May 6.51-55p4, 6.61p2, 6.70p1, and 7.47p2. The discovery was confirmed by the Spacewatch 1.8m telescope (May 8.24-25p3) and Grasslands Obs. (May 8.31p4).

MPEC 2008-J43 - "15:42 UT" - 2008 JQ14

• K08J14Q   2008 JQ14 (H=19.1 ~513m) was discovered at 0352 UT on 5 May by CSS, which observed it at May 5.16-19p4. The discovery was confirmed by LINEAR (May 6.19-23p4), the Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLS) (May 7.21-22p4 & 8.25-27p3), Great Shefford Obs. (May 7.90-91p4), Jim Young via Table Mtn. Obs. (May 8.17-18p4), Grasslands Obs. (May 8.23-24p3), and Bedient/Faulkes North (May 8.34-37p3).

MPEC 2008-J42 - "15:38 UT" - 2008 JP14

• K08J14P   2008 JP14 (H=19.2 ~490m) was discovered at 0817 UT on 1 May by CSS, which observed it at May 1.35-36p4, 7.35-37p4, and 7.42p4. The discovery was confirmed by Young/Table Mtn. (May 7.42-44p4), Guidestar Obs. (May 7.89-91p3), Great Shefford Obs. (May 7.92p3), Wildberg Obs. (May 7.94-95p3), Alter Satzberg Obs. (May 7.95-96p3), Thierry Pauwels via Uccle Obs. (May 8.01-05p4), Vallemare di Borbona Obs. (May 8.03p4), and Grasslands Obs. (May 8.31-32p3).

<< DOU on 8 May '08 >>  MPEC 2008-J41 - "06:07 UT" - Daily Orbit Update

• Observations of risk-listed objects
• K08H38B   2008 HB38 (arc=7 days, H=21.2 ~195m) from Spacewatch 1.8m (May 7.33p3)
• K08H03R   2008 HR3 (small asteroid, Q=4.028 AU, arc=8 days, H=24.8 ~37m) from Spacewatch 1.8m (May 7.24p3)
• K08H03E   2008 HE3 (Q=4.431 AU, arc=9 days, H=19.1 ~513m) from Spacewatch 1.8m (May 7.31-32p3 at V=21.7-22.2)
• Observations of recently (no longer) risk-listed objects
• K08H03D   2008 HD3 (i=52.0°, arc=8 days, H=19.8 ~371m) from Astronomical Research Obs. (ARO) (May 5.33-34p3)
• K08G20O   2008 GO20 (small asteroid, arc=27 days, H=22.3 ~117m) from ARO (May 5.18-20p3)
• Observations of small asteroids (H>22.0)
• K08H03Q   2008 HQ3 (arc=7 days, H=27.5 ~11m) from ARO (May 6.24-25p2)
• Observations of other objects
• K08J14O   2008 JO14 (arc=1 day, H=21.2 ~195m) from Guidestar Obs. (May 7.86-88p3), San Marcello Pistoiese Obs. (May 7.86-87p4), Eschenberg Obs. (May 7.88-89p7), Alter Satzberg Obs. (May 7.90-91p3), and Bergen-Enkheim Obs. (May 7.92-95p4)
• K08J00J   2008 JJ (i=45.0°, arc=7 days, H=19.0 ~537m) from ARO (May 5.39p3)
• K08J00G   2008 JG (arc=6 days, H=20.8 ~234m) from CSS (May 7.36-38p4)
• K08H38A   2008 HA38 (arc=7 days, H=20.5 ~269m) from Spacewatch 1.8m (May 7.34-35p3)
• K08H03S   2008 HS3 (arc=6 days, H=21.7 ~155m) from ARO (May 5.11-12p5)
• K08H02C   2008 HC2 (i=45.4°, arc=8 days, H=20.4 ~282m) from ARO (May 5.23-25p3)
• K08H01W   2008 HW1 (q=0.102 AU, Q=5.065 AU, arc=39 days, H=17.5 ~1.07 km) from Capannoli Obs. (May 7.90-92p3) and Greiner Research Obs. (GRO) (May 8.17-19p8)
• K08G20V   2008 GV20 (arc=26 days, H=18.6 ~645m) from ARO (May 5.20-22p3) and Spacewatch 1.8m (May 7.36-37p3)
• K08G01E   2008 GE1 (arc=31 days, H=19.3 ~467m) from ARO (May 5.25-27p3)
• K08G00X   2008 GX (arc=32 days, H=19.4 ~446m) from ARO (May 5.10-11p3)
• K08E85M   2008 EM85 (arc=53 days, H=19.7 ~389m) from ARO (May 6.10p3)
• K08D00E   2008 DE (arc=85 days, H=19.6 ~407m) from Hamamatsu-Yuto Obs. (May 7.70-76p13)
• K08B22C   2008 BC22 (arc=117 days, H=19.8 ~371m) from SSS (May 7.60-64p3)
• K05N07B   2005 NB7 (arc=3 opp, H=18.7 ~616m) from Stonegate Obs. (May 7.08-09p4 & 7.21-24p8), Hamamatsu-Yuto Obs. (May 7.56-65p10), Eschenberg Obs. (May 7.83p7), and GRO (May 8.17-22p24)
• K05N06Z   2005 NZ6 (q=0.248 AU, arc=3 opp, H=17.4 ~1.12 km) from Spacewatch 1.8m (May 7.16-17p3)
• K05JA8S   2005 JS108 (arc=4 opp, H=19.1 ~513m) from Spacewatch 1.8m (May 7.27-28p3)
• K05E70K   2005 EK70 (arc=4 opp, H=17.4 ~1.12 km) from SSS (May 7.41-42p4)
• K04F04U   2004 FU4 (arc=2 opp, H=18.5 ~676m) from Spacewatch 1.8m (May 7.21-22p3)
• K03K02O   2003 KO2 (q=0.356 AU, arc=4 opp, H=20.1 ~323m) from ARO (May 6.34-35p5)
• K01QE2O   2001 QO142 (arc=3 opp, H=19.3 ~467m) from SSS (May 7.52-56p4)
• J98S70J   1998 SJ70 (arc=2 opp, H=18.3 ~741m) from Spacewatch 1.8m (May 7.19-20p3)
• F3591   153591 2001 SN263 from SSS (May 6.50-54p4)
• 86667   86667 2000 FO10 from MLS (May 7.26-27p4)
• 36236   36236 1999 VV from SSS (May 6.38-40p4)
• 07358   7358 Oze (1995 YA3) from SSS (May 6.79-82p4)
• 01980   1980 Tezcatlipoca (1950 LA) from SSS (May 6.62-63p3)

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Observers  on 8 May '08

A total of 29 observing facilities appear in today's MPECs.

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Impact Risk Monitoring  on 8 May '08

At last check (NEODyS and JPL at 2356 UTC) there was no risk monitoring news to report yet today, except that observations of three risk-listed objects have been reported (see today's DOU MPEC above). Visit the CRT to view activity in the last four weeks and our ephemerides page for a complete list of risk-rated objects under current observation or having recent news.

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Chronology  on 8 May '08

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