[meteorite-list] Movie of asteroid (195998) SkipWilson

From: Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:11:50 -0800
Message-ID: <7C640E28081AEE4B952F008D1E913F17026522A4_at_0461-its-exmb04.us.saic.com>

Hi All,

I put together a short clip showing Skip Wilson's namesake asteroid
as it appeared in a triplet of images taken at Palomar on September 14,
2002:

http://members.cox.net/mojave_meteorites/skip_movie.avi

(The discovery images were from September 1, 2002, at Haleakala, but
Skip's asteroid shows up best in the 9/14 images.) Set your media
player to "repeat" in order to better follow the motion of the minor
planet against the background stars. Recapping the asteroid citation:

>From Minor Planet Circular 67220:

(195998) Skipwilson = 2002 RO235
     Ivan "Skip" Wilson (b. 1941) is a pioneer of systematic meteorite
recovery. He has found over 100 distinct meteorites in the blowouts of
eastern New Mexico since 1966, and he witnessed and recovered the 1998
Portales Valley fall. He has coauthored papers about meteorite
accumulation
rates and pairing.

Merry Christmas all,

Rob
Received on Thu 24 Dec 2009 03:11:50 PM PST