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(meteorobs) Hello from Jin
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Thanks for a GREAT introductory message, Jin! Welcome, and also thank you
for your input on inviting professional NEO researchers onto meteorobs!
By the way, be careful what address appears in the "From: " or "Sender: "
line of your email: we currently only allow posts to the list from
addresses which are subscribed. Anyway, I've added your second address
(below) to a list of "alternate" addresses which CAN post to the list, so
don't worry too much.
-Lew
]
>From: Jin Zhu <zj@qso.bao.ac.cn>
>Message-Id: <199802151608.AAA02008@qso.bao.ac.cn>
>Subject: Hello from Jin
>To: meteorobs@latrade.com
>Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:08:09 +0800 (CST)
>Cc: zj@qso.bao.ac.cn (Jin Zhu)
>
>To: Meteor Observers Mailing List <meteorobs@latrade.com>
>Subject: Re: (meteorobs)
>
>>>The Jin Zhu team at BAO Schmidt Observatory in Bejiing just
>>>discovered the 107th most potentionally dangerous NEO on Feb
>>>9th, 1998.
>
>>Just a short aside: Jin is actually a new subscriber to our list. Welcome
>>again, and congratulations on your team's discovery!
>
>Hello Lew and everyone there,
>
>Thanks. I learnt about this list from a posting by Lew in Benny J Peiser's
>CAMBRIDGE-CONFERENCE DIGEST, and it is really exciting for me to
>subscribe it and see so many discussions here. Though I myself am
>an 'professional' asteroid observer, I am an brand-new amatuer for
>meteor observation - I would like to learn more from this list and have
>some preparation for the Leonid Shower observation this Nov. At least
>there is an advantage for me to be a meteor observer: my current work
>give me the convenience to often (but not always) work at night. :)
>
>I tried to extract some previous documents of meteorobs but not successful
>yet for my indirect internet access through this address. But I already
>found some familiar names, as well as the discussions on Iridium flares
>which I knew from Mr. Paul Maley and just observed some events in Feb. 9
>with his prediction. It is also nice to see the names of Drs. Steve Ostro
>and Paul Chodas, for Dr. Ostro observed the Near-Earth-Asteroid 1997 BR
>with his radar system, (the object was discovered by my group one year ago)
>and Dr. Chodas made some calculations on 1997 BR.
>
>>One other aside: this issue seems to have generated a great deal of
>>interest on 'meteorobs' lately. Would you, the subscribers consider it too
>>much of a departure from our topic (meteor observing) to invite more of the
>>professional parties in the NEO scientific endeavor to participate on our
>>list?
>
>>Let's have discussion within the list about this before deciding anything:
>>all supporting comments, suggestions, and objections welcome.
>
>At least I think that it is good if they come here as a meteor amateur as well.
>And there might be some connection for the case of NEO, like the case for
>some short period comets. For case of 1997 BR, it is one of the 4 current
>NEA in MPC's 107 PHAS list
>(http://cfa-www.harvarddot edu/cfa/ps/lists/Dangerous.html)
>whose orbit 'intersects' the Earth orbit in a minimum distance equal to or less
>than 0.0005 au (which is about 1/5 of Earth-Moon distance) - they can
>still not hit us for they reach the 'minimum distance points' at different
>time. The Earth reaches the nearest point to the orbit of 1997 BR nearly in
>July 18 (?) each year, and I heard from a Chinese comet hunter that he
>read an artical by a Chinese meteor expert writing that there might be some
>meteor shower around that date if 1997 BR were core of some dead comet...
>I myself is not an expert on this but there might be someone else who already
>calculated for those situations. Anyway I have a Web page for 1997 BR at
>http://www.bao.ac.cn/bao/qso/zj/scap/special/neo/1997br/1997br.html
>(the route for this address may not be stable)
>and I will include anything I know about this object to that site.
>
>I guess that I would not be an active subscriber, for my poor knowledge in
>this field, and inconvenient linkage to internet especially when I am on
>mountain with observation. It is also a little complex for me to read those
>attached messages for my current setting of mail reading software. So Lew's
>digest version should also be quite helpful to me. Please send me that also,
>Lew, thanks. BTW, is there any other subscribers from China?
>
>With my best wishes, Jin
>
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>Jin Zhu | Tel.: +86-10-62536437 (O)
>Beijing Astronomical Observatory | +86-10-68392030 (H)
>Chinese Academy of Sciences | +86-314-5053035 (Schmidt dome)
>P. R. China | Fax : +86-10-62561085 (Obsv.)
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>email: zj@qso.bao.ac.cn or jinzhu@sun.ihep.ac.cn or zhu@samuri.la.asudot edu
>WWW Home Page: http://www.bao.ac.cn/bao/qso/zj/index.html
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