Re: FIND_ORB Input Data

sc285 Jun 4, 2004

--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bill J Gray <pluto@p...> wrote:
>At least, not yet.) For this object, all I did was to select
> the observations from the three observatories mentioned in my
> previous post: (673) Table Mountain, (689) Flagstaff, and
> (950) La Palma. These observatories all are deliberately going
> after highly precise astrometry, with observations reduced using
> Tycho-2 or UCAC2. There are probably some others (for example,
> Gordon Garradd at (422) Loomberah has gotten some excellent results),
> but not many, and I don't know who they might be. Perhaps Jan
> Manek or Rob Robinson or Steve Preston could comment?

I believe we get most of the observations used, from Table Mountain
Observatory (Bill Owen) and Flagstaff (Ron Stone). I only say this,
since I get a CC: of the observations sent by Bill Owen at TMO. Steve
Preston sites in his prediction summary, where the astrometry is
obtained url example =
http://www.asteroidoccultation.com/2003_09/0925_1468_1547_Summary.txt

Rob Robinson