[meteorite-list] 2002NY40 Flyby

From: MARK BOSTICK <thebigcollector_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 09:52:18 2004
Message-ID: <F22LCVYl4maEqxGGmNN00008640_at_hotmail.com>

Hello Tracy,

Sounds like you didn't fair any better then me. There is some unwritten
rule that every meteor shower it has to be cloudy here in Wichita, Kansas.
I guess asteroid fly bys have the same rule.

Mark


>From: Tracy Latimer <tracyl_at_lib.state.hi.us>
>To: Bernd Pauli <bernd.pauli_at_lehrer1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
>CC: jensan_at_pcii.net,meteorite-list <meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com>
>Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] 2002NY40 Flyby
>Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:34:37 -1000 (HST)
>
>My regrets also, Bernd! WE tried to take a look at 2002NY40 as well,
>using our first-time-out-of-the-box telescope we bought last
>winter. Alas, once we got it set up and attempted to focus, we found that
>the focusing knob had become loose and we didn't have the tiny allen
>wrench needed to retighten the knob. No focus, no asteroid. we then
>tried to use our friend's telescope, got THAT set up o.k., but owing to
>general unfamiliarity and miscalculation of position ("Okay, G.M.T. for
>Hawaii is 12 hours behind. And WHERE'S the track for Hawaii... what do
>you mean, we have to interpolate?!? Grrr...) the asteroid had slipped
>behind the mountain already.
>
>Rule number one: Make sure your equipment works.
>Rule number two: Make sure your BRAIN works! :-P
>
>Tracy Latimer
>
>
>
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Received on Mon 19 Aug 2002 02:35:10 PM PDT