Monthly Archives: March 2011

Albino Carbognani (OAVdA – Osservatorio Astronomico Valle d’Aosta) and myself sent some weeks ago a paper describing the photometric behaviour of NEA 2010 WA9 to Prof. Richard Binzel, editor of the Minor Planet Bulletin. This NEA showed an amplitude of … Continue reading →

C/2011 F1 (LINEAR) was discovered on 2011, Mar. 17.28 by the LINEAR survey with a 1.0-m f/2.15 reflector + CCD. It was subsequently placed on the NEO Confirmation Page of the Minor Planet Center under the temporary designation BY58897. The … Continue reading →

In the last days of February, the MPC published the update of the statistics of all observatories who contribute to the MP astrometry. The page is visible at this URL: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/special/CountObsByYear.txt In 2010, we performed 2980 astrometric measurements of 744 … Continue reading →