One new asteroid has been discovered in the course of the A79 observations on 13/11/2009. The body was designed by MPC as 2009 YH42. Based on only 4 days observations it is early to be calculated a reasonable orbit. According to MPC calculations the asteroid has a period of only 2.7 years and close approaches […]
Entries from November 2009
Discovery of the asteroid 2009 VH42
November 15, 2009 at 1:16pm
Three of the discovered by A79 asteroids have been numbered
November 9, 2009 at 12:08am
Three of our newly discovered in 2009 asteroids received permanent numbers by Minor Planet Centre. 2009 OD2, 2009 QJ5 and 2009 QT33 received numbers 225232, 225238 and 225249, respectively. We consider how to name these asteroids and are open for any helpful suggestions.
More information you can find on Discovery Circumstances page published by MPC and […]
Cometary nature of NEOCP object BQ95053 was detected
November 8, 2009 at 11:33pm
Cometary features of the NEOCP object BQ95053 was detected using a stack of 15 unfiltered exposures, 40 seconds each, obtained on 2009, October 29.06 UT. Even after this short expose time the object reveals the presence of well visible coma nearly 10 arcsec in diameter and tail around 30 arcsec. Unfortunately, we observed the new […]