NEWS ITEMS

The International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) provides images and software for schools to participate in a large asteroid-finding research project.
Lists of their recent asteroid discoveries are at http://iasc.hsutx.edu/index_files/Page786.htm.
Their 2008 near Earth asteroid discoveries are at http://iasc.hsutx.edu/Discoveries.

2009 Oct 30. From: Patrick Miller. Greetings from the International Astronomical Search Collaboration. The All-Texas Asteroid Search Campaign and NEO Confirmation Campaign are currently on hold. The weather has been overcast and raining for the past five nights at the ARI Observatory. The Full Moon occurs on Monday night so the likelihood remains slim that image sets will be available in the coming days. Should this change, you will be notified immediately.
Unfortunately astronomy is at the mercy of the weather and the Moon. For the past week it seems that both have conspired to slow down IASC and your students from making important discoveries and observations. But be patient...the situation should begin to improve in the coming week.
The following are the asteroid discoveries made so far during the current campaigns:
2009 TH2 - Dankov, Hsu, Chae, & Hennig
Thomas Jefferson HS VA 10/11/09
2009 TD2 - K. Dankov
Bulgarian Academy of Science Bulgaria 10/11/09
2009 TH5 - Dankov, Pannill, & Schmidt
Meredith College NC 10/11/09
2009 TS10 - Dankov, Pannill, & Schmidt
Meredith College NC 10/11/09
2009 UX2 - Dankov, Kirby, & Diaz
Ranger High School TX 10/18/09
2009 UA6 -Foglia, Anderson, McAbee, Craig, & Kilgo
May High School TX 10/18/09
2009 UZ5 -Dankov & Sawberger
Tarrant County CC TX 10/18/09
2009 UC18 - K. Dankov
Bulgarian Academy of Science Bulgaria 10/18/09
2009 UN14 - Dankov, Kirby, & Diaz
Ranger High School TX 10/18/09
2009 UM20 - K. Dankov
Bulgarian Academy of Science Bulgaria 10/25/09
Don't forget, too, that R. Watanabe from Shizuoka University (Japan) made an NEO confirmation of 2009 TA1 on October 11th and H. Chun from Cranston High School East (RI) made a virtual impactor observation of 2009 TE10 on October 18th.

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NOTEWORTHY HOU IMAGES

Auto-guided image taken with the New Mexico Tzec Maun E180 refracting telescope Saturday morning, October 24. It uses a SBIG one-shot color camera (ST-2000). Single exposure time was 10 minutes. Image taken by Glenn Reagan.

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