I saw in Astro magazine that Jupiter may have a new moon that needs
refinement.. maybe take a crack at that??
and there also seems to be a big object between Neptune and Pluto's avg
orbit. I read that they'd put it's diamater at around 1/6 of the Moon's
size? - 5-600 clicks

James

Excellent work!


At 04:22 PM 19/11/00 -0600, you wrote:

>The latest IAU circular shows that Bill Gray is the co-calculator of the
>orbits of the new satellites of Saturn. Way to go, Bill!
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> Circular No. 7521
>Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams
>INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION
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>S/2000 S 5 AND S/2000 S 6
> A team led by B. Gladman (cf. IAUC 7512) reports the discovery of two
>more satellites of Saturn (selected CCD astrometry below). Separate
>computations by the undersigned and by W. J. Gray (Bowdoinham, ME) indicate
>i = 49 deg, e = 0.14, a = 0.074 AU and 47 deg, 0.38, 0.085 AU, respectively,
>for the pair. S/2000 S 2 (cf. MPC 41527) has i = 48 deg, e = 0.46, a = 0.098
>AU), whereas S/2000 S 1 and Saturn IX (Phoebe) have retrograde orbits (i =
>173 deg. The orbits of S/2000 S 3 and S 4 are very indeterminate, and further
>observations are urgently needed (cf. IAUC 7513).Snip.........
>
> (C) Copyright 2000 CBAT
>2000 November 18 (7521) Brian G. Marsden
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