Dave Grennan Discovers 2009 EN1 !!

Jeez Dave, you're playing a blinder !!!

Keith..

Ok Dave......

Seconds away........Round 3 !!

:laugh: PhilipLardner wrote:

carlobeirnes wrote:

michaeloconnell wrote:

How the heck did he manage to get two clear nights AND discovery an asteroid??
Incredible! -Michael.

That's because I thought him everything he knows :laugh: :whistle: :whistle:.

Dave remember when you are naming the asteroid It's Carl with a C and not a K. WOW The only man in history to discover two asteroid's from this country what an achievement. History making stuff people.

Well done Mate.

Carl.

Holy smoke - another one! Well done Dave! Hearty Congrats!!

This discovery is doubly impressive considering you had to overcome the handicap of Carl's personal tuition!!! :woohoo: :lol: :lol:



Phil.

Hey Lardner,

Brave words from a man hiding behind his keyboard. I threw bigger out of my way to get into
fights.:laugh: :pinch: :whistle:

carlobeirnes wrote:

Brave words from a man hiding behind his keyboard. I threw bigger out of my way to get into
fights.:laugh: :pinch: :whistle:

Fightin' talk.

So, Phil, what're you thinkin'?

Be careful Carl, they don;t call him Phil "The Hit Man" Lardner for nothing

mjc wrote:

Dave, I'm intrigued - the image posted earlier (by Michael) - had trails for other objects yet the asteroid did not trail. How do you track for objects (when not yet discovered) that move differently from the celestial sphere?

Is this a dumb question?

Mark

The only dumb question is the one you don't ask:) Mark the quick answer is the photo Michael posted was stacked after the event. Although it is the discovery set. Initially what I do is stack 4 single frames along the motion of a 'typical' main belt asteroid (the motion of any main belt asteroid in that general area will do) just to see it there is anything there. I get 2 sets of 4 and blink. Look closely and objects out of place show up very faintly against the background noise level. Once you got something its a case of revisiting that area immediately and getting more exposure time on it. The co-ordiantes of any 'suspect' object are fed into the 'Minor Planet Checker' on the MPC website. This tells you if the object you're looking at correlates with a known object. Lots of times your 'suspects' turn out to be known objects or even very recent discoveries.

The problem with this method is you're never gonna find any NEOs this way. A strategy for hunting NEO's is something I spend a lot of time thinking about with no flashes of inspiration yet.


Thanks to everyone else for the good wishes. I might be the only Irish person to discover two asteroids, but somehow I feel I won't be holding that title for long:)

Calibos wrote:

Shes a life sucking b$@#% from which there is no escape....

:laugh:[/quote]

.....funny you should mention that

Dave,
This is great news.

Two asteroid's, within a few months of each other, this is just unbelievable.

You know you might have discovered four by now, if you had just taken Mr. O'Beirnes expert advice. .