[meteorite-list] Minor planet (149243) Dorothynorton
From: Steve Dunklee <steve.dunklee_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 10:21:51 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <552006.48906.qm_at_web113909.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> is there a Richardnorton?? That would be cool too! On Fri Dec 3rd, 2010 5:48 PM EST Greg Catterton wrote: >AWESOME. I could not think of a nicer person to get an honor such as this, congrats Dorothy! > >Greg Catterton >www.wanderingstarmeteorites.com >IMCA member 4682 >On Ebay: http://stores.shop.ebay.com/wanderingstarmeteorites >On Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WanderingStarMeteorites > > >--- On Fri, 12/3/10, Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com> wrote: > >> From: Matson, Robert D. <ROBERT.D.MATSON at saic.com> >> Subject: [meteorite-list] Minor planet (149243) Dorothynorton >> To: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >> Date: Friday, December 3, 2010, 5:17 PM >> Hi All, >> >> A little good news to share with the list on a Friday >> afternoon: >> >> The following citation is from MPC 71351 >> >> (149243) Dorothynorton = 2002 RL239 >> ? ???Dorothy S. Norton (b. 1945) is a >> scientific illustrator >> specializing >> in astronomy, geology and paleontology. Her illustrations >> have appeared >> in >> the National Geographic magazine, the popular meteorite >> book Rocks >> from Space and Ice Age Mammals of North America. >> >> - - - - - >> >> I thought I sent a message about Dorothy's namesake to the >> List a few >> months ago when her citation became official, but it >> apparently never >> appeared. >> >> As I wrote Dorothy back in July, it is a member of Main >> Belt I, and has >> a size somewhere between 1.2 and 2.2 km (the uncertainty >> driven by the >> range of possible reflectivities). If the asteroid were >> spherical (which >> of course, it isn't), it would have a volume in the range >> of 0.9-5.5 >> billion cubic meters. For fun, if you assume an ordinary >> chondrite bulk >> density of ~3.1 g/cm^3, that's a mass somewhere in the >> range of 2.8 to >> 17 >> billion metric tons.? (That's quite a lot of >> meteorites!) >> >> To see what the orbit of Dorothy's asteroid looks like in >> 3D, use the >> following link: >> >> http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=149243;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb >> >> (It takes a little while for the Java script to load.) The >> next close >> approach to earth will be in late January 2011, at a >> distance of about >> 1.08 a.u., which will be its closest approach since 2004. >> >> Cheers! >> Rob >> ______________________________________________ >> Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >> Meteorite-list mailing list >> Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >> http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list >> > > > >______________________________________________ >Visit the Archives at http://www.meteoritecentral.com/mailing-list-archives.html >Meteorite-list mailing list >Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com >http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list Received on Sat 04 Dec 2010 01:21:51 PM PST |
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