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  Wilson Wyoming
Known for its quaint community, interesting nightlife and delicious breakfasts, the small hamlet of Wilson, Wyoming, which is situated at the eastern foot of 8,431-foot Teton Pass, is a fun place to travel through on your way to neighboring Jackson.
Without hesitation Wilson joined, and for the next two years he lived as a Shoshone Indian hunting and fishing before he was returned home.
At the ripe age of 18, Wilson became one of the first Pony Express riders, a position that nearly cost him his life when he was struck in the head by an arrow during a Paiute Indian attack.
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  107P/Wilson-Harrington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1992 it was realized that asteroid (4015) 1979 VA and comet Wilson-Harrington were the same object.
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 107P/Wilson-Harrington -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Comet Wilson-Harrington is a periodic ((astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit) comet (formally designated 107P/Wilson-Harrington).
Little known about it distinguishes it from other comets, but for the fact that it is also designated an (Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter)) asteroid, 4015 Wilson-Harrington.
The comet was discovered on November 19, 1949 by (Click link for more info and facts about Albert G. Wilson) Albert G. Wilson and (Click link for more info and facts about Robert G. Harrington) Robert G. Harrington at (Click link for more info and facts about Palomar Observatory) Palomar Observatory.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/1/10/107pwilson-harrington3.htm   (308 words)

  
 2060 Chiron - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Chiron is officially both a comet and an asteroid, more proof of the very fuzzy dividing line.
There are two other asteroids that are also listed as comets: 4015 Wilson-Harrington and 7968 Elst-Pizarro.
Chiron is now classified as a centaur, the first of a class of objects orbiting between the outer planets.
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 Urania Newsletter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Wilson and Terrell have developed a model for simultaneously analyzing X-ray pulse delays, light curves, and radial velocity curves for X-ray binaries.
Wilson, Walter Van Hamme (from Florida International University), Terrell, and Mukherjee continue their light curve and radial velocity curve analysis of interesting objects.
Wilson was at the U.S. Naval Observatory this summer working on a project dealing with polarimetry and interferometry of binary stars, and he continues to make improvements to his light curve model.
www.astro.ufl.edu /urania/urania-fall93.html   (4849 words)

  
 Cross Listed Objects
It was then linked by B. Marsden with a previously known (but not named or numbered) asteroid, 1979 OW7 (IAU Circular 6457).
(4015) Wilson-Harrington = 107P/Wilson-Harrington is an example of the second case described above.
In 1992 E. Bowell located images of the minor planet (4015) 1979 VA on plates taken in 1949 in the course of the first Palomar Sky Survey.
www.ss.astro.umd.edu /IAU/csbn/crosslist.shtml   (304 words)

  
 World Space Conference 1992 neo-fuels
One is known to be a comet: (4015) 1979 VA = Wilson Harrington.
Wilson and Harrington observed its "tail" in 1949.
Comet object (4015) 1979 VA = Wilson Harrington, (VA) is close in the sense that it has a capture V of about 4.6 km/s.
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 Eleanor F. Helin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She is also credited as the discoverer of the object now known as both asteroid 4015 Wilson-Harrington and comet 107P/Wilson-Harrington.
Although Wilson and Harrington preceded her by some decades, their observations did not establish an orbit for the object, while her rediscovery did.
Asteroid 3267 Glo is named for her ("Glo" is her nickname).
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 107P/Wilson-Harrington   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Only three photographic observations were obtained the comet was lost (insufficient observerations to a precise enough orbit to know where look for future appearances of the comet).
In 1992 it was realized that asteroid (4015) VA and comet Wilson-Harrington were the same By then enough observations of the asteroid been accumulated to obtain a fairly precise and the search of old photographic plates pre-discovery images turned up the 1949 plates the images of the lost comet.
Although the 1949 images show cometary features subsequent images show only a stellar image it may be an inactive comet that only infrequent outbursts.
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 Chiron And Friends - Astronomy
Discovered in 1996 and reported as a comet, it was later linked by Dr. Marsden with a previously known (but not named or numbered) asteroid, 1979 OW7.
In 1992, images of minor planet (4015) 1979 VA were found on plates taken in.
Marsden realised that this object was comet Wilson-Harrington (1949 III), an object that had been reported in 1949, but that had been poorly followed and was lost.
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 SwRI Spring 2004 Technology Today Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Of three groups of asteroids that fall within the NEO classification, two cross Earth's orbit (Atens and Apollos) and a third is Earth-approaching (Amors).
Shown are the orbits of each asteroid group's namesake asteroid, including two of interest to SwRI for particular missions: 433 Eros (an Amor) and 4015 Wilson-Harrington (an Apollo).
The first asteroid visited will depend on the final flight schedule, but the second will be 4015 Wilson-Harrington, a NEO that is roughly 4 km across.
www.swri.org /3pubs/ttoday/Spring04/Cosmic.htm   (3370 words)

  
 C&MS: 107P/Wilson-Harrington
Albert G. Wilson and Robert G. Harrington (Palomar Observatory, California, USA) discovered this comet in Pegasus on a photographic plate exposed with the 48-inch Schmidt on 1949 November 19.13.
They estimated the magnitude as 16 and said the tail was less than one degree long.
These were also by Wilson and Harrington and were obtained on November 22.16 and November 25.13.
www.cometography.com /pcomets/107p.html   (502 words)

  
 (meteorobs) Excerpts from "CCNet 102/2000 - 10 October 2000 (LETTERS...)
The timescale for dispersal of the meteoroid stream is of order 10^4 years, meaning that on the astronomical timescale Phaethon has quite recently made the comet-asteroid transition.
(Although not as recently as 4015 Wilson-Harrington, say.) Or maybe it is=20 just cross-dressing for a while, and will soon burst forth into=20 splendid cometary activity, as 2P/Encke seems to have done some=20 time shortly before its discovery in 1786.
Obviously asteroids show no nebulosity due to possessing comae=20 or tails, and so simple imaging would not indicate the initiation of outgassing.
www.meteorobs.org /maillist/msg19352.html   (609 words)

  
 COMMISSION 15: PHYSICAL STUDY OF COMETS, MINOR PLANETS AND METEORITES
Material was taken from both major areas regarding the relationship between comets and asteroids and combined into a single section.
With the introduction during this triennium of a new system for designating comets, the reader will find a mixture of new and old designations (which are still officially acceptable for comets previously designated), generally the designation that one of the authors thought the reader would find most familiar.
Wilson, Sagan, and Thompson (1994, 397) used Hapke scattering theory and optical constants measured in their laboratory to examine the ability of mixtures of a number of organic solids and ices to reproduce the observed spectrum and phase variation of 5145 Pholus.
www.ss.astro.umd.edu /IAU/comm15/trirep97/Report97.html   (13752 words)

  
 Cheap Wilson Jones Side Expanding 1-31 Files   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 Asteroids/ Asteroids and Comets Section
The aim is to obtain information on the mineralogy of a large sample of NEAs which will complement the Keck data.
Near-Earth asteroids observed with the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) (PI: Harris) include 1980 Tezcatlipoca, 3200 Phaethon, 3671 Dionysus, 4179 Toutatis and 4015 Wilson-Harrington.
Images obtained with the infrared camera ISOCAM at 11.5 µm are being studied for signs of dust emission, which would reveal an object's true identity as an evolved or dormant comet rather than an asteroid.
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However, it is worth noting that the TCB could be a cross—population object: indeed, there are bodies that behave as asteroids, but are on comet—like orbits, and vice versa.
For example, the object 1979 VA is known as the comet 107P/Wilson—Harrington and as the asteroid (4015) Wilson—Harrington (Yeomans 2000).
Presently, taking into account that our sample of orbits is statistically meaningful and more robust than previous studies, we can conclude that our study based on combining interplanetary and atmospheric dynamic considerations gives an asteroidal origin of the TCB as the most probable.
www-th.bo.infn.it /tunguska/tco_MemorieSAI.doc   (1204 words)

  
 4015 Wilson-Harrington
Asteroid 4015, Wilson-Harrington, an Apollo asteroid, was discovered on November 15, 1979, by Eleanor F. Helin at Palomar Observatory near Pauma Valley, California, and is identical with the short-period comet of the same name discovered by Albert G. Wilson and Robert G. Harrington.
It has a period of 4 years, 107 days and is about 1 1/2 miles in diameter.
Thanks to Jonathan Dunn, who has done some work on this asteroid, for introducing me to it.
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 4015 - SC (SCLPITS) - Legislation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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 Dual Classification   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This meant that it automatically turned up in catalogs used both by observers of asteroidal physico-chemical properties and observers of cometary physico-chemical properties.
Since this example, two other examples have been discovered, 107P/Wilson-Harrington = (4015) Wilson-Harrington and 133P/Elst-Pizarro = (7968) Elst-Pizarro.
These three examples are very different physically from one another but they all test the boundaries of our understanding of physical properties.
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 A/CC Catalog: Comets, Numbered
It is the destination for the Stardust mission, which will collect gas and dust samples in 2004 for return to Earth.
AKA: 1949 III, 1949 W1, 1949g, 1979 VA This object is officially "cross-listed" by the IAU as comet 107P/Wilson-Harrington and asteroid 4015 Wilson-Harrington.
It was originally discovered by M.F. (Max) Wolf in Germany from a photo of 22 Dec. 1924, but was lost until rediscovered by Rogert G. Harrington in a Mt. Palomar photo of 4 Oct. 1951.
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