[BAA Comets] FW: (cba:chat) A Serendipitous Encounter

[Roger Dymock]

Hi Jeremy,

Now you know what the Rosetta spacecraft is really doing. Its part of a project to redirect all
asteroids and comets so that they pass through the star fields you VSS guys will be observing. That
way you can actually do something interesting and useful. 

Regards

Roger Dymock
Email: roger.dymock at ntlworld.com
Tel: 023 92647986
Skype: rogerdymock67 or
Skype: rjvdymock
MPC Observatory Code: 940
Project Alcock http://www.britastro.org/projectalcock/


-----Original Message-----
From: comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org [mailto:comets-disc-bounces at britastro.org] On Behalf Of
Jeremy Shears
Sent: 03 September 2014 08:09
To: comets-disc at britastro.org
Subject: [BAA Comets] FW: (cba:chat) A Serendipitous Encounter

I thought the group might find this story below salutary. Here we have an honest law abiding
variable star observer doing a time series photometry run on a cataclysmic variable only to have
C/2012 E2 (Jacques) run through the field!
So, might you good folks have data on the variable?   ;-)
GD 552 is NSV 25966 in Cep.
Go well!
Jeremy

> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 21:56:19 -0400
> From: michael.cook at newcastleobservatory.ca
> To: cba-chat at cbastro.org
> Subject: (cba:chat) A Serendipitous Encounter
> 
>  
> 
> While doing a time series on GD 552 on August 28.3 UT I happened to
> notice a fairly bright object enter and slowly make its way across the
> FOV. After using the Minor Planet Center's Minor Planet Checker
> (http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/cgi-bin/checkmp.cgi), it turns out it
> was comet C/2012 E2 (Jacques). You can read more about it here: 
> 
> http://www.newcastleobservatory.ca/node/244 
> 
> -- 
> 
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