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	Brian G. Marsden -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brian G. Marsden is an astronomer, the longtime director of the (Click link for more info and facts about Minor Planet Center) Minor Planet Center.
		In 1989, Marsden was awarded the (Click link for more info and facts about George Van Biesbroeck Prize) George Van Biesbroeck Prize by the (Click link for more info and facts about American Astronomical Society) American Astronomical Society in honor of his long-term service to astronomy.
		The (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 1877 Marsden was named in his honour.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/br/brian_g._marsden.htm (296 words)

	Scientific American: Keeper of the Objects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marsden has served as the referee for all NEO sightings over the past 25 years--a period in which the total search effort has grown from a fledgling survey or two into a productive and efficient international network.
		Marsden admits that his word choice was "ill advised" but insists the calculation was correct at the time.
		Given Marsden's long tenure in the NEO field--starting out as he did when there was no "field" to speak of--Morrison is skeptical about talk of his impending retirement: "I think he'll do it forever." That is, of course, if the world doesn't end first.
	www.sciam.com /print_version.cfm?articleID=000C14F2-565A-1F03-BA6A80A84189EEDF (1279 words)

	Live Science
		Brian Marsden has just compiled some statistics from the previous month to get a sense of the MPC's capabilities to handle the flood of data that would be pouring in if a Spaceguard-scale survey were in place.
		Marsden agrees that the amount of sky being covered now by the major programs -- Spacewatch, NEAT, and ODAS - - is "dismally small." He points to the July 1994 collision between Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 and Jupiter, which was witnessed throughout the world, as evidence that we can predict these kind of events in advance.
		Marsden is not prepared to remedy this situation by offering any cash rewards himself, but he feels strongly that the process of naming comets, and giving proper credit.
	www.billdillon.com /omni.html (7228 words)

	He puts the heavens in perspective - The Boston Globe
		A few years back, Brian Marsden’s grandson called him long-distance from California and began listing the nine planets in the solar system.
		Marsden’s opinion of the debate over Pluto and the difference between major and minor status: ‘‘I think it’s all rather hyped up, quite frankly.
		Marsden examined the report of this activity, then placed it in a pile on his desk.
	www.boston.com /news/science/articles/2005/08/22/he_puts_the_heavens_in_perspective (937 words)

	AAS/DDA 1995 Brouwer Award Winner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Dr. Brian Marsden of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics was announced as the winner of the 1995 Dirk Brouwer Award of the Division on Dynamical Astronomy for his research on the orbits of comets and for his superb service to the entire astronomical community through his stewardship of the IAU Circulars and Minor Planet Circulars.
		Marsden has computed an incredible number of comet and asteroid orbits, allowing other scientists to pursue research based on his reliable orbits.
		Marsden successfully predicted the return of Comet Swift-Tuttle, and is the celestial mechanician who discovered that Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 would impact Jupiter in mid-1994.
	tdc-www.harvard.edu /dda/brouwer_award/brouw95.html (192 words)

	Science Show - 7/04/01: Full Transcript
		Brian Marsden: Oh, when I was an undergraduate at Oxford many years ago, I came down with what was thought was the Asian flu and the Edmund Halley House was used as a sanatorium by my college and so I was sent there for a few days.
		Robyn Williams: That was Brian Marsden, Associate Director for Planetary Sciences at the Harvard Smithsonian Observatory.
		Brian Marsden: The museum, The American Museum of Natural History in New York, where the New York Times is published, a year or so ago they opened a new centre, the Rose Centre with an exhibit.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ss/stories/s276174.htm (7020 words)

	Press Release (The Royal Marsden Hospital.) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Royal Marsden NHS Trust is pleased to announce that the Secretary of State has appointed Francine Bates as a Non-Executive Director of the Trust and that Brian Mills is re-appointed for a second term of office.
		Brian, a Chartered Certified Accountant and a graduate in economics from Bristol University, has made his career in IT and management in London, Scotland and South Africa.
		During his time at the Royal Marsden, Brian Mills has chaired the Research Ethics Committee and is Chairman of the Audit Committee.
	www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk /news/pressrelease/23.asp (680 words)

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		As the Director of the Minor Planet Center, Brian Marsden knows that, any morning, he might walk into his office and discover that one of the previous night's batch of new asteroids might represent a serious danger to the Earth.
		Brian reacted in what was, to me, a very measured way, with a carefully phrased IAUC, noting the near certainty of an approach to a distance less than that of the Moon and requesting further observations.
		Specifically, Brian showed that an impact in 2037 was a definite possibility (it would have required particularly bad luck, with the approach in 2028 changing the orbit by just the right amount, but it was not impossible).
	www.iac.es /galeria/mrk/xf11.html (1428 words)

	Alt Impact Hazard: 1997 XF11
		Marsden had a policy of holding onto the data (for one month) that he receives from the world's astronomers, and a practice of doing his own evaluation of the data before making them available to other astronomers.
		That correction (to Marsden's widely publicized statement that there was a "small chance" of impact) is qualified by the words "in the absence of effects that would be highly unusual," which seems to represent a third about-face by Marsden.
		Other elements of Brian Marsden's "explanation" are helpful and insightful, as are the reported changes in operation of the IAU Minor Planet Center.
	www.boulder.swri.edu /clark/fx11.html (1687 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Marsden had been in charge of the Bureau since Jan.1968.
		In recognition of his long service, he has been given the honorary title of Director Emeritus, and it is anticipated that he will still be actively involved in the Bureau's activities.
		Editor: We are sending messages to both Brian and Dan and I am sure the close cooperation which has existed for so many years between the Central Bureau and TAHQ will continue.
	www.theastronomer.org /tacirc/2000/e1556.txt (434 words)

	Pluto
		After the Boston Globe report appeared, Gareth Williams, Brian Marsden’ assistant at the Minor Planet Center denied that the idea of downgrading Pluto from planetary status was being discussed at the moment.
		Brian Marsden wishes to take advantage of the imminent arrival of asteroid 9999 to start organising the distant solar system.
		What Brian wishes to do is to number the Trans-Neptunian Objects from 10000 to recognise their special status in the solar system.
	www.iac.es /galeria/mrk/Pluto.html (1483 words)

	Metanews: Inside the asteroid panic
		Marsden's official IAU Circular 6837 gave his estimate of how close the asteroid would come to Earth and encouraged other astronomers to make additional observations to help reduce the uncertainty.
		Most asteroid researchers, even those who say Marsden is unfairly blamed for crying wolf, say the press release, which specifically mentioned the remote possibility of an Earth collision (the circular hadn't you would have had to do the calculation yourself), was a mistake.
		Marsden is still bitter, and many in the asteroid community agree that Yeomans' action gave an erroneous impression of disagreement when none existed.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/21stC/issue-3.2/reichhardt.html (968 words)

	Shoemaker-Levy 9 General Information
		Brian Marsden calculates elliptical orbit, according to which the comet is now near Jupiter; probably with a 6 million km approach around 1992 July 28.
		Brian Marsden finds that the comet must at least temporarily be in orbit around Jupiter.
		Calculations by Brian Marsden and Syuichi Nakano (Japan) show close encounter with Jupiter in early July 1992 and probably again towards the end of July 1994 at a distance of only 45,000 km, i.e.
	www.maa.mhn.de /SL9/Html/sl9_text7-7.html (1405 words)

	Daily Free Press -Online science Tuesday, March 31, 1998
		Marsden first announced his doubts about Pluto in 1980, when New Mexico State University invited him, already a 20-year veteran of the astronomical community, to the 50th anniversary of Pluto's discovery, along with Tombaugh and other prominent astronomers.
		Marsden, who is advocating a demotion to minor-planet status for Pluto, insists that what Pluto is called is important.
		Marsden's supporters have said that Charon is actually a twin asteroid of Pluto.
	www.collegepublisher.com /media/paper87/dfparchive/science/0331981.html (752 words)

	CNN - You discovered a comet! How do you name it? - Apr. 1, 1997
		Brian Marsden is the latest in a long line of scientists to adopt that role, one that dates back to Europe in the mid-1800s.
		Ever since, Marsden and two assistants have had the weighty job of registering and tracking every new object spotted in space, from asteroids to supernovas to comets.
		New comets are part of the routine for Marsden, but for people like Hale and Bopp, it's probably a once in a lifetime event.
	www.cnn.com /TECH/9704/01/cosmic.cop (391 words)

	Earth & Sky : Astrophysics and Space : Interviews with Scientists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brian Marsden is Director of the International Astronomical Union's Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams and of the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
		Marsden: Yes, we're also, more importantly, involved in receiving the information from the discoverers in the first place and deciding whether we believe it, calculating orbits, looking for other observations, and things like that, and then making the announcement.
		Marsden: The discoverer did suggest a name, which is in keeping with names of other objects out there in that region.
	www.earthsky.org /shows/astrophysics_interviews.php?id=44587 (3182 words)

	Chiron and Friends - The Naming (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brian Marsden and I had been conducting a dialog about possible Centaur names for the new bodies.
		When I wrote to Dr. Marsden to let him know that several astrologers had independently arrived at the name Nessus for 1993 HA2, he wrote back that it would most likely be officially named in the Spring of 1997, and he would see what he could do about having the name Nessus accepted.
		Marsden on 31 May 1995 was actually the third e-mail, but the first "official" recommendation to IAU.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/7969/page4_2.htm (683 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Brian Marsden (IAU Telegram Bureau) finds that the comet is probably near Jupiter.
		1993 Mar 27 5726 Brian Marsden calculates elliptical orbit, according to which the comet is now near Jupiter; probably with a 6 million km approach around 1992 July 28.
		Brian Marsden now find that the close encounter took place on 1992 July 7.8 and that collisions will begin on 1994 July 17.6.
	www.vt-2004.org /outreach/info-events/sl9/text/esorepjul16.txt (1401 words)

	Amateur Astronomers, Inc. - Newsletter (April 1999 - PG3)
		Marsden, the chairman of the IAU's Minor Planet Center has the job of cataloging asteroids, comets and other objects in solar orbit discovered by astronomers.
		Marsden argued how Pluto's odd orbit and small size should classify it at least as a 'minor planet'.
		E-Mail and letters from all over the Earth urged the IAU to stop Brian Marsden from making Pluto more 'politically correct,' although the new classification would be more scientifically correct.
	www.asterism.org /newsletter/l9904-3.htm (971 words)

	Naming a planet Zappafrank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He's an avid fan of Frank Zappa, the late rock musician, and felt that Zappa was such a shining star of 20th-century music that he deserved to have a real star named in his honor, as a memorial.
		Brian Marsden of the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomic Union (IAU) however had to disappoint him.
		When planetoid guru Brian Marsden will do his best for it, it probably will be fine.
	www.goddijn.com /zappafrank.htm (728 words)

	Comet LINEAR
		Orbital calculations by Brian Marsden at the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams soon indicated that the comet was located at a rather distant 3.9 Astronomical Units (AU) (360 million miles, or 580 million km) from the earth and 4.3 AU (400 million miles, or 640 million km) from the sun.
		The most recent orbital calculations by Brian Marsden indicate that perihelion takes place on July 26, 2000, at a distance of 0.765 AU (71.1 million miles, or 114.5 million km) from the sun.
		Marsden's calculations also seem to indicate that, unfortunately, Comet LINEAR is probably a first-time visitor into the inner solar system.
	www.swisr.org /newcomet.html (2199 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		---------------------------------------------------------------------- On May 2, 1996, Brian Marsden (IAU Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams) published new elements and an improved ephemeris for Comet Hyakutake on IAU Circular 6391.
		Brian Marsden has also approached observers with an urgent request for follow-up positional measurements.
		But if one does not allow for nongravitational forces, the observations from about April 17 onwards, and particularly the final observations (April 20, two different observatories), cannot be properly represented.' Please contact Brian Marsden (marsden@cfa0.harvard.edu) as soon as possible if you think that you will be able to perform such observations.
	www.vt-2004.org /outreach/info-events/hyakutake/eph/comet-hyakutake-eph-may06-bm.txt (214 words)

	The Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign
		We all know the effect that cancer can have on people’s lives, so it is great to hear about the Royal Marsden’s exciting plans to make an extraordinary difference in cancer care, treatment and research.
		Brian put on the regulation blue theatre scrubs to wheel patients to the hospital’s operating theatres on behalf of the The Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign, the hospital’s £30 million fundraising appeal.
		We have visited the Royal Marsden several times and have seen the extraordinary work that takes place at the hospital.
	www.royalmarsden.org /campaign/news.asp?pr=272 (498 words)

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		Marsden has told S&T that if it is the hulk of some interplanetary probe, it might have been launched either 16 or 32 years ago.
		Marsden said Friday that the variation in brightness "means we are dealing with some very peculiar object.
		Marsden, director of the Cambridge-based International Astronomical Union's Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams and Minor Planet Center, said yesterday that the variation in brightness "means we are dealing with some very peculiar object.
	www.paranetinfo.com /UFO_Files/ufo/object.txt (2440 words)

	Phenomena, Comment & Notes - A Celestial News Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Even at the height of panicky reports that the world as we know it would end in 2028, courtesy of a one-mile ball of rock code-named 1997 XF11, Brian Marsden remained calm.
		Unfortunately, Marsden's request was all but overlooked during the ensuing hysteria.
		A few years later, Brian Marsden began overseeing its reports of comets, novas and supernovas.
	www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues00/may00/phenom_may00.html (1518 words)

	Welcome to Milnerton Golf Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Andy Keightley, Alec Frowde, Brian Marsden and Brian Makepeace took a windy Milnerton to pieces over the weekend when they won the club’s Fourball Alliance event with 88 points (two scores to count, three on the short holes).
		Marsden, who is an 18 handicap, contributed heavily to the team’s total.
		According to Brian, the winning fourball usually play on Sunday mornings, but this time, Saturday was their day.
	www.milnertongolfclub.co.za /news.php?id=24 (177 words)

	News Article: Short Warning Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		But once contacted by Yeomans and Chesley, Marsden agreed to provide the data to the JPL researchers and did so about 20 minutes later; then, about 1 hour 45 minutes after being notified by Harris, they got to work trying to understand this anomalous asteroid.
		None of the later postings reflected new data: Spahr and Marsden were simply frantically trying to figure out for themselves what the data meant and what was politically correct to display on their web site.
		The situation remained uncertain for several hours, until amateur astronomer Brian Warner, with a 20-inch aperture telescope in Colorado, searched the area where JPL calculations showed that the asteroid would have to be if it were on an actual collision course.
	nai.arc.nasa.gov /impact/news_detail.cfm?ID=135 (2580 words)

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