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In the News (Wed 23 Dec 09)

  
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Ted Nugent (born December 13, 1948) aka the Nuge and "the Motor City Madman") is an American guitarist from Detroit, Michigan, originally gaining fame as a member of the Amboy Dukes.
Ted Nugent was his first solo release; the album was a success among the heavy metal community.
Ted Nugent is an award-winning writer for over 20 publications, and author of the New York Times best-seller "God, Guns and Rock 'n' Roll" (July 2000), and "Kill It and Grill It" (2002), a cookbook co-authored with his wife, Shemane.
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 Cornell News: Planet Cornell
It's a piece of celestial real estate," the asteroid's discoverer, astronomer Ted Bowell, told celebrants Sunday at the opening ceremony of the International Conference on Asteroids, Comets and Meteors (ACM) being hosted at the university.
This asteroid was re-discovered in 1991 and became the 332nd one found in the first two weeks of August that year.
Bowell, recognizing the orbits of 1980 RP and 1991 PG-13, linked the two and found they were one and the same, thus qualifying the asteroid for a permanent numerical designation and a name.
www.news.cornell.edu /releases/July99/PlanetCornell.bpf.html   (574 words)

  
 Introduction to astorb.dat
Bowell unnumbered discoveries whose ephemeris uncertainties are less than 2 arcsec within the next ten years or so.
For unnumbered asteroids, we have retained obviously inferior observations where doing so improved the OQP and ephemeris uncertainty, thus making it easier to reobserve them; these asteroids are identified by integer code 2:16.
The research and computing needed to generate astorb.dat were funded principally by NASA grant NAG5-4741, and in part by the Lowell Observatory endowment.
cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr /ftp/cats/aliases/A/astorb/astorb.html   (2405 words)

  
 AstroFest 2005 — Transneptunian objects   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ted Bowell was educated in London and Paris, and in 1973 joined the staff of Lowell Observatory where he now directs the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Asteroid Search (LONEOS).
He and his colleagues have discovered about 20 comets and 200 Earth-approaching asteroids, and he is looking forward to using a 4.2-m wide-field telescope, soon to be constructed by Lowell Observatory, to increase the discovery rate of NEOs tenfold.
Ted is currently Vice President of Division III (Planetary Systems Sciences) of the International Astronomical Union.
www.ianridpath.com /astrofest/tno.htm   (220 words)

  
 Minutes of Tucson LSST meeting, March 17-18
PHA's are defined as those objects whose orbits come within 0.05 AU of the orbit of the Earth (this distance is called the Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance, or MOID).
Ted Bowell has been carrying out simulations of the distribution of PHA's on the sky; they tend to bunch up close to the Sun, and are concentrated close to the ecliptic.
Ted Bowell then gave a presentation on his work on cadence for PHA's.
www.astro.princeton.edu /~dss/Lists/lsst-general/msg.102.html   (2638 words)

  
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Acknowledgment and Attribution: The research and computing needed to generate astorb.dat were funded principally by NASA grant NAGW-1470, and in part by the Lowell Observatory endowment.
7 Bowell unnumbered discoveries whose ephemeris uncertainties are less than 2 arcsec within the next ten years or so.
Such asteroids are prime targets for observation because their orbits are subject to the greatest improvement for years to come.
www.astro.helsinki.fi /opetus/kurssit/tadaa/r/astorb.ReadMe   (987 words)

  
 2822 Photos
This asteroid was discovered 25 years ago by Edward "Ted" Bowell who now heads the Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Survey.
Sacajawea's son—known as "Little Pompey" or just "Pomp" to the men of the expedition, as "Jean Baptiste" to his father, and perhaps as "Pompy" to his mother (the word means "Little Chief" in Shoshone)—was born on February 11, 1805, while the expedition wintered with the Mandan Indians near present day Bismarck, North Dakota.
Note about spelling: in the years since Ted Bowell named asteroid 2822 for Sacajawea, other spellings of her name have become common.
www.davidcortner.com /2822   (228 words)

  
 Asteroid Cornell
It's a piece of celestial real estate," the asteroid's discoverer, astronomer Edward "Ted" Bowell, told celebrants at the Johnson Museum of Art on campus July 26 at the opening ceremony of the seventh International Conference on Asteroids, Comets and Meteors (ACM).
When minor planet Cornell was discovered by Bowell -- an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona and one of the world's most prolific asteroid discoverers -- on Sept. 2, 1980, he was using the same telescope that astronomer Clyde Tombaugh used to discover the planet Pluto about 50 years earlier.
The IAU, the world's official planet nomenclature authority, dubbed it 8250 and as of July 28, 1999, it also is officially called Cornell.
www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/99/8.12.99/asteroid.html   (606 words)

  
 ASTEROID NAMED FOR PORCO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
A Lowell Observatory astronomer has named an asteroid for UA planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, who designed and produced the Eugene M. Shoemaker Tribute that flew on the Lunar Prospector mission to the moon in January.
Ted Bowell of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff discovered the 15-mile diameter asteroid in October 1985 while observing at the observatory's Anderson Mesa Station.
Discoverers of asteroids get the privilege of naming them, with approval of the Small Bodies Names Committee, which is under the authority of the International Astronomical Union.
www.lpl.arizona.edu /News/porco.html   (300 words)

  
 Welcome to Meteor Crater!
Dr Ted Bowell is a mild-mannered guy you’ve never heard of and probably wouldn’t pay much attention to.
Dr Bowell’s spent almost his entire career searching through the dark reaches of space for asteroids, some of which can be more than 10 miles across, that might be on a collision orbit with earth
And Dr Bowell said, “if the same meteor that landed here were to land in downtown Phoenix, Phoenix would cease to exist.
www.travelsw.com /southwest-trips/southwest-trips-arizona/meteorcrater.htm   (884 words)

  
 Sherlock Holmes in the Universe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
All three minor planets were discovered by Ted Bowell from the Anderson Mesa Station at Lowell Observatory in Arizona.
Bowell as well as Urata are among the heavyweight discoverers.
Bowell has been involved in 499 discoveries and Urata in 214.
www.gfy.ku.dk /~ams/sh/universal.html   (2875 words)

  
 Introduction to astorb.dat
We will shortly add information on ephemeris uncertainty: current uncertainty, the date and values of the next peak emphemeris uncertainty (generally near the time of the next opposition), and the date and value of the largest peak ephemeris uncertainty over the next ten years.
Following that, we intend to produce a version of the database in a format resembling that espoused in our ACM93 paper [E. Bowell, K.
The research and computing needed to generate astorb.dat were funded principally by NASA grant NAGW-1470, and in part by the Lowell Observatory endowment.
alumnus.caltech.edu /~nolan/astorb.html   (1618 words)

  
 Planetary Society: Earth-Crossing Asteroid
They could be smaller and yet still be as bright - if their surface reflects more light.
Based on its brightness, its current distance, and an expectation of its albedo, Dr. Ted Bowell, director of LONEOS, estimates that 2001 OG108 could be as large as 15 kilometers (10 miles) in size.
Since the average size of the 800 known Earth-crossing asteroids is less than one kilometer, "this object really sticks out," Dr. Bowell notes.
www.planetary.org /html/news/articlearchive/headlines/2001/bigasteroid.html   (342 words)

  
 Party-Goers Get Asteroids Named Just for Them
Others were jubilant: a table full of Italian scientists cheered each time one of their number was named in the long roll call of asteroid laureates.
Asteroids are the only celestial objects that can be named after living persons by their discoverers, Bowell said.
Bowell said such asteroids have not been named, ``but probably their discoverers are wondering what to do.''
www.space.com /scienceastronomy/solarsystem/asteroid_party_wg.html   (580 words)

  
 (7737) Sirrah/ Section Physics of Small Bodies and Extrasolar Planets
On November 5th, 1981, Ted Bowell, an astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Arizona and discoverer of many asteroids, was able to add another one to his list: 1981 VU.
This information is important for a range of scientific questions concerning the origin and nature of near-Earth asteroids and in particular for the assessment of the risk that these objects pose as potential impactors on the Earth.
Other new asteroid names announced by Bowell at ACM99 honour scientists and engineers involved in NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission (NEAR), and astronomers and space scientists from Cornell University which hosted ACM99.
solarsystem.dlr.de /KK/Solar.shtml   (739 words)

  
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Spacewatch is being redesigned with a larger array of new detectors, and their 1.8-m reflector is coming on line so that it should then not be far behind anymore.
Ted Bowell manages the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Survey, LONEOS, which is successful in finding 1-km and larger potentially hazardous asteroids.
The Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program is run by Eleanor Helin at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with its CCD system on a telescope in Hawaii.
www2.msstate.edu /~amn4/Results.html   (355 words)

  
 Starry Night Pro Help
Since the orbital elements of asteroids are constantly changing it is a good idea to update this Asteroids.txt file from time to time.
The Asteroids.txt file is based on astorb.dat produced by Ted Bowell at the Lowell Observatory.
Astorb.dat is an ASCII file of high-precision osculating orbital elements and some additional data for all the numbered asteroids and the vast majority of unnumbered asteroids (multi-apparition and single-apparition) for which it is possible to make reasonably determinate computations.
www.starrynightpro.com /help/asteroids.shtml   (556 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 3850 Peltier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Asteroid (3850) Peltier is named in honor of Leslie Peltier.
It was discovered on October 7, 1986 at Anderson Mesa by Ted Bowell.
Asteroids discovered: 571 2246 Bowell December 14, 1979 2264 Sabrina December 16, 1979 2270 Yazhi March 14, 1980 2316 Jo-Ann September 2, 1980 2356 Hirons October 17, 1979 2357 Phereclos January 1, 1981 2383 Bradley April 5, 1981 2409 Chapman October 17, 1979 2410 Morrison January 3, 1981 2411...
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/3850-Peltier   (564 words)

  
 Sutherland Astronomical Society: Areas Of Interest - 2003 Australian Minor Planet Workshop
The professionals from the USA (notably Alan Harris and Ted Bowell) took up the idea with great enthusiasm and publicised it far and wide.
As a result of all this activity, some 60 attendees rolled up at the workshop for the two and a half days of presentations, discussions and poster papers.
Highlighted were the detailed data we now have (for a few asteroids only) from spacecraft flybys and how this can be integrated into light curve studies.
www.sasi.net.au /ampw_2003.html   (878 words)

  
 Near Earth Object Map   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
To get a better idea of the distribution of objects near the Earth I have a map showing the relative positions of all asteroids currently within 0.3 AU.
The Asteroid elements are all taken from Ted Bowell's excellent online catalogue.
All other software and text is Copyright 1998 - Scott Manley - Take a look at his home page.
szyzyg.arm.ac.uk /~spm/neo_map.html   (568 words)

  
 M2C Newsletter vol.2/1
We stayed in the dorms and enjoyed the cool Flagstaff evenings (though the days were a little warm).
Highlights of the conference included a talk on the chances of significant meteor impacts on the Earth by Dr. Ted Bowell of Lowell Observatory followed by a visit to the observatory.
Many participants were heardto remark that this was the best conference that they'd been to in years.
www.dist.maricopa.edu /m2c/newsletters/newsletter2i.html   (272 words)

  
 Earth & Sky : Radio Shows
Different astronomers arrive at different estimates of how far out an asteroid might become visible to the unaided human eye.
Ted Bowell, for example, calculated for me that a 15-kilometer asteroid approaching Earth directly opposite the Sun at a speed of 20 kilometers per second would have become just barely visible (magnitude 5.7) to the unaided human eye at a distance of 500,000 kilometers, just three days before reaching Earth.
An asteroid approaching from opposite the Sun would be fully lit.
www.earthsky.org /shows/show.php?date=20011009   (776 words)

  
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The file was created by extracting the object identifications from the data file, creating the individual records and sorting the output.
Unnumbered asteroids were checked against Ted Bowell's cross-identification database to see if numbers had been subsequently assigned.
If so, the catalog number was added to th record.
www.psi.edu /pds/archive/astdata/MPISP/mpispal.lbl   (117 words)

  
 Observer Newspaper - News
Terrence Rettig recently received news of his new namesake — a 4.5 billion year-old asteroid.
As associate professor of physics at Notre Dame, Rettig's work on the book, "Completing the Inventory of the Solar System" and his research on comets and planetary formation caught the attention of Ted Bowell.
Renowned for asteroid discovery and Rettig's co-author of the "Inventory" book, Bowell recommended to the International Astronomical Union that one of his discoveries, Asteroid 8474, first spotted in 1985, be named Asteroid Rettig.
www.nd.edu /~observer/02242000/News/3.html   (459 words)

  
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We anticipated the need for a deep, dense catalog to support minor planet observers using CCDs and smaller aperture telescopes.
I worked with Ted Bowell (Lowell) to prepare the USNO-SA2.0 catalog.
This catalog was designed to have enough reference stars so that astrometric solutions could be done using a few stars in each field.
ftp.nofs.navy.mil /projects/pmm/a.response   (613 words)

  
 Multiple Targets per night   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
For observers who have computerized telescopes like the Meades or Celestrons, you should consider choosing several targets to work each night.
On a recent visit to Lowell Observatory, Ted Bowell recommended this type of proceedure to me, where an observer "jumps" from asteroid to asteroid filling in the data points.
A second, third or fourth night observing these same objects allows one to get a smoother lightcurve of each object and also allows the observer to gather data for more then one object, thus enhancing the use of the telescope time more efficiently.
www.minorplanetobserver.com /_astlc/0000000f.htm   (136 words)

  
 (5201) Ferraz-Mello
Unusual asteroid discovered by Ted Bowell at Anderson Mesa Station (Lowell Observatory) on December 1st, 1983.
The labels of the curves are the same shown in the plot showing the next approaches.)
1983 XF, (Bowell, E.; Mrkos, A.; Everhart, E.) IAU Circular 3905, 2 (1984).
www.astro.iag.usp.br /~sylvio/a5201/a5201.htm   (729 words)

  
 SPACE.com -- Study Raises Number of Dangerous Asteroids
The margin of error indicates the number could be between 790 and 1,010 such asteroids.
"It means that people's chances of dying in an asteroid impact have not changed significantly from the previous estimates," said astronomer Ted Bowell, of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
The study indicated that when asteroids collide in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, fragments are not immediately kicked into orbits that threaten Earth.
www.space.com /scienceastronomy/solarsystem/asteroid_impacts_000622-2.html   (599 words)

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