some more from Peter Marples of SAS:
You will note the citation says (1466) Erwin ... not really sure why as it is officially (14664) Vandervelden, it was unable to be called Erwin as a very similar name existed and confusion would have been have been a problem, as it is there is another asteroid called van der velde. Further you will note the citation had to say a lot in a very short sentence. Several other more detailed drafts were rejected for being too long, so we had to ensure we got the information we needed across.
I note that Minor Planet data upgrades for several Astronomy software programmes now have 14664 Vandervelden included.
For those with the sky go to http://www.bisque.com/thesky/tom/ast...inor%20Planets then go to Lowell Observatory link it will automatically give you the zipped 20 meg file, save it then unzip it, replace the existing file astorb in the sky extended minor planets directory with the new one (which will be about 67meg), it is useful to do this time to time as asteroid elements are upgraded very often, and if you intend to image it you will need the position.
For those with other programmes go to http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/Ephem...ftwareEls.html
Here is the citation announced on M.P.C. 5613 dated 2006 APR.13,
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(14664) Erwin = 1999 BY25
Discovered 1999 January 25 by T. Urata at Oohira.
Erwin Van der Velden (1966-2005) was an active and valued member of the Brisbane and Southern (Australian) Astronomical Societies. He developed supreme imaging techniques for planetary and deep sky objects taken by a Digital SLR camera and a Web-Cam.
Thanks indeed,
Peter Marples
Peter also reminded me of the other significant aspect of this object - it was discovered on the 25th of Jan.....Erwin's Birthday!