Asteroid 2006 WV - Whisssh - Wave bye-bye - 0.9 lunar distances - Nov. 21st.

A 13 meter rock, discovered 17 November 2006, reported 19 November 2006, flying by 21 November 2006. Oh Oh OH.

Easy come, easy go, unless that had been dead on. Hmmmmm.
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http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/crt.htm#2006wv
2006 WV

Current assessments: NEODyS [backup] & JPL NEOPO
Diameter: 13 meters (JPL estimate)
JPL: Orbit Viewer NEODyS: object home page [backup] & observations
[backup]

Circulars: MPEC 2006-W24

Notes: 2006 WV was discovered on 17 Nov. 2006 by the Catalina Sky Survey and was announced two days later, which is when NEODyS and JPL posted it as an impact risk.

JPL reports this object will pass Earth at 0.9 lunar distances (LD) on Nov.
21st.

Packed designation: K06W00V

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What else has recently been discovered?
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http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/
Near Earth Object Program

The following table lists potential future Earth impact events that the JPL Sentry System has detected based on currently available observations. Click on the object designation to go to a page with full details on that object.

Sentry is a highly automated collision monitoring system that continually scans the most current asteroid catalog for possibilities of future impact with Earth over the next 100 years. Whenever a potential impact is detected it will be analyzed and the results immediately published here, except in unusual cases where an IAU Technical Review is underway. For more information on impact monitoring and risk assessment see our Impact Risk Introduction and Frequently Asked Impact Risk Questions.

It is normal that, as additional observations become available, objects will disappear from this table whenever there are no longer any potential impact detections. For this reason we maintain a list of removed objects with the date of removal.

Where is 1950 DA?

121 NEAs: Last Updated Nov 21, 2006
Sort by Palermo Scale (cum.) or by Object Designation

Recently Observed Objects
(within past 60 days)
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Any of you see it go by?
We see these bits of rock, often after they go by, then figure out how close they were.
Zip zip there you are right among the zip-top bags.
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http://www.suntimes.com/news/quicktakes/143766,CST-NWS-qt21.article
Quart-sized zip-top bags fix everything

November 21, 2006
BY ZAY N. SMITH Sun-Times Columnist
News Item: "Airlines say they're prepared for an onslaught of Thanksgiving travelers who may not know that big bottles of shampoo, mouthwash and hair spray are banned from. . . ."

And remember, even as you are struggling with the new carry-on rules and being patted down, even at that moment, the Department of Homeland Security is allowing uninspected cargo onto your airplane.

Missed us by that much
The latest asteroid to be discovered four days after a near miss with Earth is Asteroid 2006WP1, which, it was discovered on Monday, had passed between the Earth and moon last Thursday.

Asteroid 2006WP1 is not to be confused with Asteroid 2006 WV, which, QT reported on Monday, was discovered Sunday just as it approach for a near miss with Earth sometime today, if NASA's calculations are correct.

And you were worried? NASA is on top of these things.

License to fish, drive ...

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I bet you weren't worried, I bet you didn't even know we had a couple of near misses.
Was that thunder I just heard, or a sonic boom of an incoming ....

Thanks for looking up with me.

Larry Kellogg

Web Site: http://lkellogg.vttoth.com/LarryRussellKellogg/
BlogSpot: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/
RSS link: http://kelloggserialreports.blogspot.com/atom.xml
Newsltr.: https://news.altair.com/mailman/listinfo/lunar-update
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[If I hadn't looked at JPL's Space Calendar I would not have known a rock was passing by.
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http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/#0611
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# Nov 21 - New[Nov 19] Asteroid 2006 WV Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
# Nov 21 - Asteroid 2002 XY38 Near-Venus Flyby (0.028 AU)
# Nov 21 - Asteroid 2001 WV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
# Nov 21 - New[Nov 17] Asteroid 2006 VP13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
# Nov 21 - Asteroid 6135 Billowen Closest Approach To Earth (1.702 AU)
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http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/crt.htm#2006wa3
Consolidated Risk Tables
for objects under recent observation & active risk analysis Sources last checked at 0107 UTC on 22 November 2006

Risk monitoring Web sites were last checked at 0107 UTC, 22 Nov. 2006 (6:07pm at A/CC).
-- All "time UTC date" header notations are for when information was recorded by A/CC.

0107 UTC 22 Nov.

* JPL has posted 2006 WA3 as a risk.


2225 UTC 21 Nov.

* NEODyS has reposted 2006 SU49 as a risk.
* 2006 WA3 MPEC 2006-W46 dated "2006 Nov. 21, 22:21 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WA3 at 2006 Nov. 18.26436 by the Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLS), which observed it at Nov. 18.26-29, 18.34-37, 19.23-29, and 21.17-20. It was also observed from the Spacewatch 1.8m telescope (Nov. 21.11-12) and Farpoint Obs. (Nov. 21.14-18).

2102 UTC 21 Nov.

* NEODyS has posted 2006 WS1 as a risk.

1959 UTC 21 Nov.

* NEODyS has posted 2006 WP1 as a risk.

1726 UTC 21 Nov.

* NEODyS has posted 2006 WX1 as a risk.

1618 UTC 21 Nov.

* JPL has updated its 2006 SU49 risk assessment.
* NEODyS has removed 2006 UR216 as a risk.
* JPL has updated its 2006 WV risk assessment.
* JPL has removed 2006 WX as a risk.
* DOU MPEC 2006-W43 dated "2006 Nov. 21, 07:24 UT" reports observation of
-- 2006 SU49 from Spacewatch 1.8m (Nov. 20.07-08)
-- 2006 UR216 from MLS (Nov. 20.46-47)
-- 2006 WV from LINEAR (Nov. 18.28-32), Robert Hutsebaut via RAS Obs.
(Nov. 20.42), and Great Shefford Obs. (Nov. 20.88 & 21.10)
-- 2006 WX from Faulkes Telescope North education program (Nov. 20.45)

0520 UTC 21 Nov.

* JPL has posted 2006 WP1 as a risk.
* JPL has posted 2006 WX1 as a risk.

2134 UTC 20 Nov.

* 2006 WP1 MPEC 2006-W33 dated "2006 Nov. 20, 19:36 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WP1 at 2006 Nov. 18.29615 by the Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLS), which observed it at Nov. 18.30-32, 18.38-40, and 19.30-32. It was also observed from Great Shefford Obs. (Nov. 19.07-09) and the Spacewatch 1.8m telescope (Nov. 19.45-46).
* 2006 WS1 MPEC 2006-W36 dated "2006 Nov. 20, 19:55 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WS1 at 2006 Nov. 19.05865 by the MLS, which observed it at Nov. 19.06-11 and 20.16-19. It was also observed from Farpoint Obs. (Nov.
20.10-12).
* 2006 WX1 MPEC 2006-W41 dated "2006 Nov. 20, 20:36 UT" reports the discovery of 2006 WX1 at 2006 Nov. 19.46485 by the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS), which observed it at Nov. 19.46-48 and 20.50-51. It was also observed from Sandlot Obs. (Nov. 20.36-38) and MLS (Nov. 20.41-43).

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http://www.brera.mi.astro.it/sormano/sael.html
Sormano Astronomical Observatory: Small Asteroids Encounters List

Last update: November 21, 2006

Computations by: Piero Sicoli , Francesco Manca (sormano@tin.it).

Small Asteroids Encounters List

This list includes small asteroids ( H > 22 ) having an Earth MOID (Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance) distance lower than 0.015 A.U, and is a complement of the ( MBPL )Minor Body Priority List for objects of smaller size. Circumstances of the encounter with our planet are closer in time to the epoch of available observations and are reported in italic and within . Moreover closest approaches for three centuries are computed only for objects having orbital elements with the uncertainty number U lower or equal to 5. For information about the U parameter adopted by the Minor Planet Center see MPC 24597 and the related page about the U value.

For the most interesting close encounters (depending on MOID, U parameter, nominal distance, propagation of the error etc.) the future minimum (min) and maximum (max) miss distances in AU are computed using the OrbFit Software Package. These values, based on a 3-sigma uncertainty confidence level, are reported at the left of the nominal result and a symbol " r "
means that available radar observations have been included in the orbital solution.

For all the entries, Earth MOID (software by F. Manca, G. Matarazzo, P.
Sicoli , Sormano Observatory ) and encounter parameters (software by A.
Testa, Sormano Observatory) are computed again at each orbit update.

The list, in connection with The Spaceguard Foundation, could be a support for observing and research plans.

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http://spaceguard.esa.int/SGF/
The Spaceguard Foundation home page
Welcome to the home page of the Spaceguard Foundation, an association aimed at the protection of the Earth environment against the bombardment of objects of the solar system (comets and asteroids). According to the foundation by-laws:

... the Association is therefore an entity eminently oriented within the most general framework of scientific research and shall pursue the following
purposes:

* to promote and co-ordinate activities for the discovery, pursuit
(follow-up) and orbital calculation of the NEO at an international level;
* to promote study activities - at theoretical, observational and experimental levels - of the physical-mineralogical characteristics of the minor bodies of the solar system, with particular attention to the NEO;
* to promote and co-ordinate a ground network (the Spaceguard System), backed up by possible satellite network, for the discovery observations and for astrometric and physical follow-up.

The Spaceguard Foundation has been officially set-up on March 26, 1996, in Rome. It is presently hosted by the Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale of italian National Research Council (CNR) in Rome, although this is probably only a temporary settlement; its E-mail address is spaceguard@rm.iasf.cnr.it

Please note that the present WWW pages are under construction and still at a preliminary stage: for any problem please refer to Giovanni Valsecchi
(giovanni@rm.iasf.cnr.it): any help, comment and proposal will be highly appreciated!

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http://www.nss.org/settlement/asteroids/index.html
Asteroids
If the dinosaurs had a space program,
they would still be here.

As an example of the economic value of space resources, let's consider the smallest known M-type asteroid, the near-Earth asteroid known as 3554 Amun (two kilometers in diameter): The iron and nickel in Amun have a market value of about $8,000 billion, the cobalt content adds another $6,000 billion, and the platinum-group metals add another $6,000 billion.
- John S. Lewis, Mining the Sky.

There are two things you need to know about asteroids:

* Asteroids can make us extinct (the threat).
* Asteroids can make us rich and provide homes for trillions of people (the promise).

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[Check out the changes at http://www.nss.org/settlement/]
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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