[meteorite-list] Happy Birthday, Meteorite Men!

From: Arlene Schlazer <piebear_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 17:14:06 -0800
Message-ID: <A292DF4A0E684A5DB5E99F839F76F16D_at_PiePC>

Congrats to you and all the others who won a Harvey Award last nite. And
what an incredible birthday gift for Geoff!!! After recognizing so many
others all these years for their contributions to the meteorite world, its
so nice to see him being rewarded for all he's given us......Very well
deserved.........now if we only knew what type of meteorite it would
produce! Congratulations Geoff!!!
Arlene Schlazer


----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Matson" <mojave_meteorites at cox.net>
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 1:38 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] Happy Birthday, Meteorite Men!


> Hi All,
>
> First off, happy birthday greetings to Geoff and Steve -- I hope
> you both had a fabulous time at your Birthday Bash last night at
> the Sky Bar, and that your bar tabs were covered by everyone
> else. ;-) I really wish I could have made it to Tucson again
> this year, but it's been crunch-time at work getting our ground
> software operational for our satellite launch in less than six
> months. I owe you both a belated birthday cocktail the next time
> our paths cross (hopefully in some farflung strewn field!)
>
> I got an e-mail from Bob Verish this morning, informing me that
> I won a Harvey Award last night!! I am honored and humbled and
> (as I wrote Geoff privately a little while ago) simultaneously
> a bit horrified that I couldn't be there in person last night
> to accept it. It would have been a special treat to share the
> stage with NEO-hunter-extraordinaire, Richard Kowalski, who I
> understand also won a Harvey.
>
> As long as I'm on the subject of asteroids, I'd like to share
> with the List a little early birthday gift that I presented
> Geoff late last year, but decided to wait until his birthday
> to announce publically:
>
> MPC 72991 citation:
>
> (132904) Notkin = 2002 RB237
> Geoffrey Notkin (b. 1961) is co-host of the popular Science Channel
> series Meteorite Men and author of over 100 articles on meteoritics,
> paleontology and the arts. A discoverer of meteorites on four continents,
> he has also made documentaries for Discovery, National Geographic, PBS,
> the
> BBC and the History Channel.
>
> - - - - -
>
> Minor planet dynamical group: Hilda
> Semi-major axis: 3.9982764 a.u.
> Inclination: 3.55428 degrees
> Eccentricity: 0.1440889
> Perihelion distance: 3.422169 a.u.
> Aphelion distance: 4.574384 a.u.
> Absolute magnitude: 14.4
>
> Astrometry from 89 observations at 6 oppositions spanning 1995-2010
> Last observed: 10/9/2010 by station G96
> Discovery date : 2002 09 12
> Discovery site : Palomar
> Discoverer : Matson, R.
>
> The Hildas are interesting in that they are in a 2:3 orbital resonance
> with Jupiter: they complete three orbits for every two Jovian orbits.
> The first Hilda asteroid was discovered in 1875. Currently there are
> only ~1100 Hildas known, which is less than 1/4 of a percent of all
> known asteroids. They are very dark objects, with a mean albedo of
> only 0.044 -- similar to cometary nuclei. Based on this albedo and
> an absolute magnitude of 14.4, (132904) has an approximate size of
> 8.4 km. That's a cross-sectional area very close to the size of
> Manhattan, with which Geoff should be quite familiar. :-) Assuming
> a bulk density of 1.5 g/cm^3, that corresponds to a mass of around
> 4.6 x 10^11 metric tons -- around a half trillion metric tons!
>
> Congratulations, Geoff, and welcome to the minor planet club!
>
> Best wishes,
> Rob
>
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