------------------------------------------------------------------- THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 1557 2000 Aug 28 09.35UT Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise, Basingstoke, Hants, RG22 4PP,England.Telephone/FAX(01256)471074Int:+441256471074 INTERNET: GUY@TAHQ.DEMON.CO.UK GMH at AST.STAR.RL.AC.UK WORLD WIDE WEB http://www.demon.co.uk/astronomer ------------------------------------------------------------------- EDITORIAL NOTICE The editor will be taking his annual holidays shortly and will not be contactable during the period August 31 - September 13. During that time please consult Nick James or Denis Buczynski with any urgent queries for which contact details appear in TA. It would also be helpful if any e-mails to them concerning potential discoveries could still also be copied to the editor's mailbox so that I can review them on my return. It is possible the September issue of TA might be slightly delayed in despatch due to these holidays but we will endeavour to send this as soon as possible after the usual Sept 20 deadline. 2000 QW7 Gareth Williams reports on M.P.E.C. 2000-Q32 that observations from station 608 Haleakala-NEAT/MSSS by E. F. Helin, S. Pravdo, K. Lawrence, P. Kervin, D. Talent, R. Maeda, P. Tanner with the 1.2-m reflector + CCD have detected a bright fast-moving asteroid: Observations: RA (2000) DEC V Station 2000 08 26.35469 21 21 33.34 -03 33 57.0 13.6 608 2000 08 26.36539 21 21 43.57 -03 34 03.6 13.4 608 2000 08 26.37659 21 21 54.30 -03 34 10.4 13.5 608 Orbital elements by Gareth Williams: 2000 QW7 PHA 0.013 Epoch 2000 Aug. 24.0 TT = JDT 2451780.5 Williams M 353.92092 (2000.0) P Q n 0.36165732 Peri. 190.39996 +0.98215789 +0.18621332 a 1.9510626 Node 158.81329 -0.16689848 +0.92748969 e 0.4694395 Incl. 4.16947 -0.08666469 +0.32417198 P 2.73 H 19.6 G 0.15 >From 115 observations 2000 Aug. 26-27. Ephemeris: 2000 QW7 a,e,i = 1.95, 0.47, 4 q = 1.0352 Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2000 08 24 20 46.04 -03 10.9 0.046 1.053 157.1 21.9 14.1 2000 08 25 20 59.83 -03 19.6 0.043 1.051 159.6 19.5 13.9 2000 08 26 21 15.46 -03 29.0 0.040 1.049 162.6 16.8 13.6 2000 08 27 21 33.11 -03 38.8 0.038 1.047 165.9 13.6 13.4 2000 08 28 21 52.91 -03 48.6 0.036 1.046 169.6 10.0 13.1 2000 08 29 22 14.86 -03 57.8 0.034 1.044 173.3 6.5 12.9 2000 08 30 22 38.84 -04 05.7 0.033 1.043 175.0 4.8 12.7 2000 08 31 23 04.49 -04 11.4 0.032 1.041 172.1 7.6 12.8 2000 09 01 23 31.25 -04 14.3 0.032 1.040 167.1 12.5 12.9 2000 09 02 23 58.40 -04 13.8 0.032 1.039 161.5 17.9 13.1 2000 09 03 00 25.13 -04 10.1 0.032 1.038 155.9 23.4 13.3 2000 09 04 00 50.73 -04 03.4 0.033 1.037 150.5 28.6 13.5 2000 09 05 01 14.64 -03 54.5 0.034 1.037 145.5 33.5 13.8 2000 09 06 01 36.53 -03 44.2 0.036 1.036 140.9 37.8 14.0 2000 09 07 01 56.27 -03 33.2 0.038 1.036 136.9 41.7 14.2 2000 09 08 02 13.89 -03 22.0 0.040 1.035 133.4 45.0 14.4 2000 09 09 02 29.51 -03 11.2 0.042 1.035 130.4 47.8 14.6 2000 09 10 02 43.31 -03 00.8 0.045 1.035 127.9 50.2 14.8 2000 09 11 02 55.49 -02 51.1 0.048 1.035 125.7 52.1 15.0 2000 09 12 03 06.25 -02 42.1 0.051 1.035 123.9 53.8 15.2 2000 09 13 03 15.75 -02 33.8 0.054 1.036 122.4 55.1 15.3 Guy M Hurst