AUGUST 14, 8;04 PDT [KENT]

The data including NeoDys objects list is confusing the hell out of me!

http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?objects:2002NY40;main

Today, 8/14, they say:

a (AU) 2.0394 0.0004726 [what is this? Yesterday 8/13, was at .0006509 AU]

If you click on minimum earth distance

http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?objects:2002NY40;statpts;gif

you get:

315.209 224.297 0.00316467 MINIMUM

43.5086 41.2896 0.00615356 MINIMUM

Meanwhile we have the java at astro arts

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db?name=2002+NY40

[NeoDys sux, what kinda turpentine are they drinking? Figures merely at odds by a multiple of ten!] They are now on my poop-list along with preachers, politicians and lawyers.

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OVER AT TimeBomb 2000 we have:

08-13-2002 06:49 PM

http://66.191.143.250/vb/showthread.php?s=b7bcd103c121703589a30f515428cdc5&threadid=39000&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

**Minimum distance is now .0006509 AU or about 1/4 the distance to the moon, based upon 515 observations and 7 discards.

http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?objects:2002NY40;main

This has changed from a minimum of approximately lunar distance a week or so ago and there only five more days for revisions.

Break out the tin hats ... This could get interesting**.

08-14-2002 12:27 PM

http://66.191.143.250/vb/showthread.php?s=b7bcd103c121703589a30f515428cdc5&threadid=39000&perpage=40&pagenumber=3

Reset Panic Mode ... Everyone can go back to sleep. :-)

0.0035223 Nominal

0.0035213 Minimum

Both about 330,000 miles or ~ 1.3 x lunar distance

http://newton.dm.unipi.it/cgi-bin/neodys/neoibo?objects:2002NY40;main

( Look 2/3 of way down for 2002/08/18 )

602 Observations

7 discarded

It looks to me like they may have made a mistake yesterday on the calculations. I think they owe us a big ´Ooops ... Sorry´**

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SLEUTHS????