Rob Matson: Congratulations on the honor of having an asteroid named after you.
"The Minor Planet Center today updated its Discovery Circumstances pages with 93 new namings. The highest numbered asteroid with a name is now 73491 Robmatson (2002 PO164), a Main Belter discovered by Sebastian Hoenig in the NEAT/Palomar archive. Rob Matson is also an archive sleuth (see 2004 DW news) as well as a meteorite and SOHO comet hunter." Regards, Dave > > Hi List and Rob, > > I did get permission from our own list member Rob Matson to post this email > he send to me. > I thought it to be very interesting and would like to share it with you. > > Happy hunting, Moni > > > > >that reminds me, have you found one lately? > > Yep -- nearly every day. But all of the finds credited to me (so far) > have been Main Belt asteroids. The most interesting and rewarding > work was my precovery of asteroid 2004 DW last month. You may have > read about this giant icy TNO (trans-Neptunian object) in the news, > as it is probably the largest body that has been found in the solar > system other than the planets and their moons. You can read about > it here: > > http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/mn/0402/21.htm > > In other asteroid news, as asteroid was officially named after me > today! See page 2 here: > > http://www.hohmanntransfer.com/mn/0403/05.htm > > --Rob > > _________________________________________________________________ > Find things fast with the new MSN Toolbar – includes FREE pop-up blocking! > http://clk.atdmt.com/AVE/go/onm00200414ave/direct/01/ > > > ______________________________________________ > Meteorite-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
