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Old 03-06-2018, 01:57 PM
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"My" first asteroid

Hi all,

While playing with pixel rejection algorithms I noticed an elongated star that appeared to be moving relative to other stars.

A quick search with Jet Propulsion Lab Small Body Identification Database has allowed me to identify the asteroid - it is 192 Nausikaa (https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=192)

Pretty cool to detect a sub 100km rock floating through space
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Old 03-06-2018, 02:37 PM
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That's pretty cool Suavi! I do really wonder how many asteroids we've all captured and rejected without giving a second thought to!
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Old 04-06-2018, 02:51 PM
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Agreed, that is exciting indeed, nice work.

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Old 04-06-2018, 04:49 PM
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They tell you it's an asteroid, but really we know that it is little green men in a red tesla convertible.
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Thank you gents. I have also attached an image of the asteroid's orbit.
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Old 05-06-2018, 08:00 AM
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Good catch Suavi. I had a similar first asteroid experience with the larger Vesta in May. Not using any pixel algorithms, it initially appeared as a registration anomaly between filter layers. All those named small bodies have some sort of orbital motion.
I suppose this is how comets used to be discovered, by folks eye balling film plates.

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Pretty awesome to be able to find and identify small chunks of rock out there. Amazing what we can do with fairly modest consumer level tools. Are you going to try to collect more now? Or plan to try to recapture this one later on ?
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Nice catch!



(Would you believe, last year I got 2 on the one target! One was easily identified as 7 Iris, but the other took a lot of tracking down: it was a 66km wide asteroid with an orbital period of ~87 years......)


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The night Sauvi lost his asteroidal virginity. He will remember it for the rest of his life.

Nice image and follow-up Suavi, well done.

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Pretty awesome to be able to find and identify small chunks of rock out there. Amazing what we can do with fairly modest consumer level tools. Are you going to try to collect more now? Or plan to try to recapture this one later on ?
Of course he will. Soon it will consume his hobby, leaving little time for those artistic interpretations and sudo-scientific images. This is real data collection, and who knows maybe one day you might save the earth.

Oh, its all to moving.

I'm off to confirm some myself.
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Old 05-06-2018, 06:29 PM
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Good catch Suavi. I had a similar first asteroid experience with the larger Vesta in May. Not using any pixel algorithms, it initially appeared as a registration anomaly between filter layers. All those named small bodies have some sort of orbital motion.
I suppose this is how comets used to be discovered, by folks eye balling film plates.
I initially thought it was a bunch of hot pixels...

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Pretty awesome to be able to find and identify small chunks of rock out there. Amazing what we can do with fairly modest consumer level tools. Are you going to try to collect more now? Or plan to try to recapture this one later on ?
At this stage I am continuing with my 'pretty picture' of the Lobster nebula, but in the future I will look into chasing some interesting asteroids.

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Nice catch!



(Would you believe, last year I got 2 on the one target! One was easily identified as 7 Iris, but the other took a lot of tracking down: it was a 66km wide asteroid with an orbital period of ~87 years......)

Two in one target that's a nice catch for sure

66km is quite small too...

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The night Sauvi lost his asteroidal virginity. He will remember it for the rest of his life.

Nice image and follow-up Suavi, well done.



Of course he will. Soon it will consume his hobby, leaving little time for those artistic interpretations and sudo-scientific images. This is real data collection, and who knows maybe one day you might save the earth.

Oh, its all to moving.

I'm off to confirm some myself.
It certainly got my attention and planted a seed of curiosity in my brain that will not go away
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it was a 66km wide asteroid with an orbital period of ~87 years......)

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...that's a ' BIG ' Rock ....!!
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