(meteorobs) New parent body?

Roberto G. md6648 at mclink.it
Tue Apr 22 13:46:25 EDT 2008


From: <meteoreye at comcast.net>


> 2008 HE has (temporarily) been added to the JPL risk page.
> There are 6 LOW risk impacts listed beginning in 2036, the highest one ~ 3 
> in 10 million.
> The observational arc is up to 3 days, which is still inconsequential. 
> It's not even worth attempting to descibe a potential radiant with this 
> level of uncertainty.
> EMOID is now 0.866, but the nodes (when the asteroid orbit crosses the 
> plane of the earth's; hence when meteor showers can occur) are well inside 
> Mercury's orbit, and near Jupiter's orbit.
> Besides asteroids are rarely meteor shower sources.
> http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2008he.html
> http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2008+HE;orb=1
>
> This can safely be dismissed as a source of meteors.
> MW

Very interesting, it's as I wrote, the orbit it's
changing for more long arc of observational data,
I think that it shall be change newly: it's certainly
that we cannot to talk now on possible meteor showers,
but it's a object to follow for the definitive orbit.
Best greetings.
Roberto gorelli





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