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Member of public wants to see 2012 DA14
by Patrick Wiggins 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hi all, A lady who lives near Ogden rang me today saying she wants to see 2012 DA14 as it makes its flyby on the 15th. I told it it would not look like much but she'd still like to see it. Is anyone here planning on trying to spot it? Weather permitting I'll be trying to image it but she wants to see it through a telescope. patrick

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Name Pluto's newest moons!
by Kelly Ricks 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Exactly. Why waste "Vulcan," and "Orpheus" and "Styx" on these little guys. My personal favorites are "Obol" and "Lethe." They go together well and seem more appropriate (and in the case of "Obol") even descriptive. ~Kelly > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 09:00:48 -0700 > From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> > To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Name Pluto's newest moons! > Message-ID: > < > CAHmuOYqKN3wYVKD2KZ1kjP+PUFiL-bDXiNYcMMvEBAgtQcGgig(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > We are going to use-up all the good names on boulders, then have to scrape > the bottom of the barrel when naming all of those much larger "dwarf > planets" *beyond *Pluto. > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.slas.us/gallery2/main.php > > End of Utah-Astronomy Digest, Vol 120, Issue 43 > *********************************************** >

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Name Pluto's newest moons!
by D P Pierce 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Hey! Look at this. They want our opinion. Vote for the name of Pluto's newest moons. http://www.plutorocks.com/ Deloy

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Very nice scope, Chuck
by Dave Gary 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Chuck, Very nice. It’s kind of embarrassing. We have the same weird work schedule (and plenty of it), however, you find the time to make a bang-up scope and I nap every chance I get. It will be nice to see the images you get. Well, off to work. Dave

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Name Pluto's newest moons!
by Kelly Ricks 13 Feb '13

13 Feb '13

Yeah, the ones I picked were pretty low on the list too. Oh well. I guess I can revote 500 times every day until it's over...maybe that will help. ~Kelly > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 18:45:23 -0700 > From: Chuck Hards <chuck.hards(a)gmail.com> > To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> > Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Name Pluto's newest moons! > Message-ID: > < > CAHmuOYonwep2wMZBS_YGGTe4umYmPQqRKwZZZ0Rm_RMeBESs_w(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I voted yesterday, but my choices are close to dead-last in the running. > Poop. > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:21 PM, D P Pierce <starsbirdsglyphs(a)gmail.com > >wrote: > > > Hey! Look at this. They want our opinion. Vote for the name of > Pluto's > > newest moons. > > > > http://www.plutorocks.com/ > > > > > > >

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ISON this eveing
by Patrick Wiggins 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Maybe my imagination but the tail seems a little more obvious this eveing. http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/C_2012_S1.2013FEB12.JPG patrick

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Comet Mt. Lemmon (C2012 F6)
by Chrismo 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

Has anyone else seen this article? http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/20961693/comet-discovered-by-mt-lemmon-s…

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UNHM
by Chuck Hards 11 Feb '13

11 Feb '13

I'm at the museum today, for the first time. Pretty neat!

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2012 DA14 press conference replay
by Patrick Wiggins 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

A replay of Thursday's news conference on 2012 DA14 is available online at: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29104663/highlight/323835 patrick

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Shatner calls the ISS.
by Daniel Holmes 10 Feb '13

10 Feb '13

William Shatner started a Twitter conversation a few weeks ago with Cmdr Hadfield on the ISS. It culminated last week with a radio call. I followed both of them on twitter at the beginning, it was hilarious to read Hadfield's first reply to Shatner with 'yes, we are in standard orbit'... Here is the call: http://bit.ly/12137us Dan -- Sent from my iPhone. Please pardon any mispelings or errors.

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