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Re: Asteroid Will Miss Earth By Comfortable Distance In 2028
my point is that someone uninfected with "p.t. barnum syndrome" does not
issue a request for one's colleagues to do a follow-up on one's
calculations via a press release! c'mon. this would typically have been
handled far more elegantly.
using barely a touch of creative license, i stand by the representation
that marsden's data was instantaneously swatted away.
darryl
At 06:20 PM 3/13/98 +0000, Ron Baalke wrote:
>
>I'm not sure what your point is, but Marsden's and JPL's press releases
>were not instanteous, and were sent out more than 24 hours apart.
>Brian Marsden issued his press release
>on March 11 based on observations over an 88 day period
>of the asteroid. At the same time, he sent out a request to the astronomy
>community for additional observations of the asteroid, including possible
>prediscovery images. A prediscovery image was discovered th Eleanor Helin
>and party from a 1990 Palomar Observatory plate the next day. Don Yeomans
>and Paul Chodas took the new information and determined a more precise
>orbit which is based on data now covering an 8 year period, as opposed to
Marsden's
>88 day period. The JPL press release came out on the afternoon of March 12,
>more than 24 hours after Marsden's announcement.
>
>Ron Baalke
>
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