IAU A79

Seven new main belters have been discovered in a course of A79 observations. Initially we tried to confirm short arc on-line observations provided by our colleague K. Dankov, but found also the asteroids 2010 EZ20 and 2010 EC44 on 06 and 13 March, respectively. During the confirmation process we were able to detect much brighter […]

Според проведената от нас анкета стана ясно, че българите категорично избират до името на Васил Левски в космоса да бъде увековечен друг наш национален герой – Христо Ботев. Членовете на нашата обсерватория са радостни от това решение и изказват своята голяма благодарност на гласувалите над 1300 човека в нашата анкета! Показателен е факта, че втори […]

Eight MB asteroids have been discovered in a course of A79 observations in November (14-21). Five of the bodies are members of the central part of the belt, two of the inner and one is an outer. We performed consecutive observations in December and improved significantly their orbital elements. Five of the discovered 9 asteroids […]

Международния астрономически съюз стартира процедура по кръщаване на 3 от откритите през 2009 г. от IAU A79 астероиди: 2009 OD2, 2009 QJ5 и 2009 QU33. Във връзка с това, обсерватория IAU A79 инициира анкета чрез която да се определи на кои велики българи да бъдат кръстени астероидите.След дискусия на нашите колеги беше взето единодушното решението […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

Two new MB asteroids have been discovered in the course of A79 observations on 21/10/2009.  The bodies were designed by MPC as 2009 UL18 and 2009 UN18. According to current orbital elements 2009 UL18 is a member of the Central zone of the Main Belt when 2009 UN18 of the Inner zone. New observations of […]

One new Main Belt Asteroid has been discovered during the A79 observations. The body was designed by MPC as 2009 TY and linked to some earlier observations. According to the current orbital elements (25 days arc), the asteroid is a member of the inner zone of the MB, has a period of 3.21 years and […]

During the extension of the orbits arc of our recently discovered asteroids by 0.61m telescope at H11 observatory we detected 7 MBA and were able to confirm two of them in two different nights. MPC designed them as 2009 SQ169 and 2009 RZ58. The 2009 RZ58 observations covered 14 days period and MPC linked the […]