Does anyone know of any NEOCP archives?

Sam Deen Oct 20 1:54 PM

Hi all,

I know this probably isn't the most appropriate place to post this, but considering the shenanigans regarding yahoo groups over the last few days, this is the only place that seems to be reliable at the moment for posting to without worrying about deletion or groups moving, or some other issue relating to that.

I've been very behind recently on updating the list of asteroid close approaches to Earth in 2019 on wikipedia, something which I've taken pride in for the last couple of years (on earlier pages) as giving a thorough archive of asteroids approaching Earth exceptionally closely. Unfortunately, since March I haven't been updating it due to various issues with personal life, which has presented a problem. A very large proportion of asteroids that are known to approach Earth are never actually "confirmed" into provisional designations (possibly as high as 1/3rd based on what I've recorded), meaning that if I wanted to get a fairly definitive list of asteroid close approaches, I would need to include objects well-observed enough on the NEOCP to establish that they approached Earth, but nonetheless never receoved provisional designations.

So, the question goes out: does anyone have a general listing of objects that were on the NEOCP (including observations of said objects)? I would assume the objects might be in the ITF file, but that would also be swamped by the hundreds of times more objects that were never suggested to be NEOs, as well as essentially all other junk discovered around the same time.

~Sam