Replies

I see 1:60, but not the 1:43. Can you post the URL? Thanks.

Near-Earth Asteroid 2004 MN4 Reaches Highest Score To Date On Hazard Scale
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news146.html

121 posted on 12/26/2004 6:37:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (There's nothing new under the Sun. That accounts for the many quotes used as taglines.)

I see 1:60, but not the 1:43. Can you post the URL? Thanks.

The URL of the official JPL/NASA tracking data page for this asteroid is:

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html

Even if the final analysis does not move much, some of the supporting data is updated as observatories report in and it is added to the model. This page seems to be changing daily.

Right now, almost all the data is coming in from observatories south of the equator, as the asteroid is somewhere in the vicinity of the South Pole currently, making the participants a bit sparse. It will become visible in to observatories north of the equator in a little bit, which is also where a lot of the observatories that can track this thing actually are.

124 posted on 12/26/2004 6:55:48 PM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)

At the top of the table on http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/risk/2004mn4.html, the most recent numbers are 2.2e-2, or about 1 in 43.

127 posted on 12/26/2004 7:23:48 PM PST by eno_ (Freedom Lite, it's almost worth defending.)

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794