Chip Bast

  • Post-event photos from SciWorks

  • The Young Astronomers Newsletter March 2013

    The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 21 Number 4 March 2013 By Art Gormley  

  • Pilot Mountain Observation – March 2, 2013

    Hi FAS people: The weather gods are tough. Two weather sites (including the Sky Clock) predict it will turn clear tomorrow night; two others say it will be cloudy. The smart money will be on the latter, but I’m not too smart, so (for the moment) our public observation at Pilot Mountain is on. If…

  • Chelyabinsk Meteor (02.15.13) – informational weblinks

    From Jeff Poplin – NASA revises (upward) preliminary estimates: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130215.html UMSF forum pages about the event: http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=5524&st=285 Lots of good comments from knowledgeable folks… Interesting link used by one poster to estimate impact effects: http://impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEffects/ Phil Plait’s update: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/02/15/russian_meteorite_fragment_may_have_fallen_in_frozen_lake.html Meteosat-9 images showing contrail shadow on ground! First pics I’ve seen of possible fragments. http://74.mvd.ru/news/item/845855/ (need…

  • 1913 Great Meteor Procession

    On 2/8/2013 11:16 PM David Morgan wrote: This is wild: 1913 Great Meteor Procession I like the temporary orbit hypothesis. Indeed! Extraordinary event. What I find peculiar is the reports of the bright, star-like object seen during the middle of the display. “Several report that near the middle of the great procession was a fine…

  • Occultation Alert

    Attention Occultation Alert  How many of us have seen a star occulted by an asteroid? It is kind of like watching a solar eclipse but in miniature, it is the passing of an asteroid in front of a star. This one occurs in the constelation of Auriga. On Friday Feb. 22, 2013 at 02:25UT (09:25pm…