TAIWAN 台湾 Elementary School Asteroid Search Team Discovered 8 Potentially NEW Asteroids VIDEO!

TAIWAN 台湾 Tang Lung Elementary School Asteroid Search Team Discovered 8 Potentially NEW Asteroids -VIDEO!-- I return to Taiwan tomorrow 13MAY-31MAY2016 . Here I come!
 - LunarMeteoriteHunter, Tokyo

Tang Long Elementary School, PingTung, Taiwan

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從現在起，天空中有1顆小行星叫「屏東」。 記者翁禎霞／攝影
Tang Lung Asteroid Search Team 3rd-5th Graders!
From now on, the sky has an asteroid named "Pingtung."
Reporter Weng Zhen Xia / Photography

TAIWAN 台湾 Tang Lung Elementary School Asteroid Search Team Discovered 8 Potentially NEW Asteroids

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PingTung, Taiwan Tang Lung Elementary School Students Discovered 8 Potentially NEW Asteroids! http://tinyurl.com/jpf2bm5

Pingtung City Tang Lung Elementary School Establish Asteroid Search Team http://tinyurl.com/hvusydb
Pingtung City Tang Lung Elementary School establish asteroid search team, students can learn to set up and use a telescope and learn astronomical knowledge, in addition to the school hoping to stimulate children's curiosity for the vastness of the universe.

"Here you go! Be proud of these students! Go PingTung, Taiwan GO! PingTung Tang Lung Elementary School!" - Dirk Ross -

175583 Pingtung - Asteroid Newly Named After PingTung County Taiwan http://tinyurl.com/j7trx3e
175583 Pingtung, Pingtung asteroid the size of a rough estimate of about 3-6 km detour around the sun about 5.55 years (orbital period), about 430 million kilometers from the sun, the nearest time (perihelion), when the farthest from the sun (aphelion ) of about 510 million kilometers. October 15, 2006 was found, it was in the vicinity of the Taurus, in April 2016 in the position of Capricorn.

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Anyone wanting to make donations of money or time please contact Mr. Dirk Ross here: @ drtanuki@gmail.com . Thank you!
任何人想要做的金錢和時間捐款請與我聯繫@ drtanuki@gmail.com。 謝謝！
-Dirk Ross....Tokyo, LunarMeteoriteHunter

Thank you Brother Elias for helping also with this project and your fantastic videos!
Love, Dirk Ross....Tokyo

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175583 Pingtung - Asteroid Newly Named After PingTung County Taiwan

175583 Pingtung - Asteroid Newly Named After PingTung County Taiwan

175583 Pingtung, Pingtung asteroid the size of a rough estimate of about 3-6 km detour around the sun about 5.55 years (orbital period), about 430 million kilometers from the sun, the nearest time (perihelion), when the farthest from the sun (aphelion ) of about 510 million kilometers. October 15, 2006 was found, it was in the vicinity of the Taurus, in April 2016 in the position of Capricorn.

175583 Pingtung，屏東小行星的大小粗估約3-6公里，繞行太陽一圈約5.55年(軌道週期),離太陽最近時(近日點)約4.3億公里，離太陽最遠時(遠日點)約5.1億公里。2006年10月15日被發現，當時是在金牛座附近，2016年4月位置則在魔羯座。

JPL/NASA-
175583 Pingtung (2006 TV94)http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=175583

Wikipedia Entry-
(175583) Pingtung is an asteroid one of the main belt of asteroids. It was discovered the15 October 2006at the Lulin Observatory by Chi-Sheng Lin and Ye Zhi Quan . It has an orbit characterized by a semi-major axis of 3.13 AU, an eccentricity of 0.09 and an inclination of 11.5 ° relative to the ecliptic 2 .

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Pingtung, Hengchun 2015 Southern Cross Star Party Finale 13JUN2015 w/video

Pingtung, Hengchun, Taiwan 2015 Southern Cross Star Party Finale 13JUN2015 w/video

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The Southern Cross as seen from Pingtung, Hengchun 13JUN2015

2015 06 13 恆春星吶

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Naruwan
 2015屏東國際隕石研討會前精彩的表演
Paiwan elementary school students performance -
Kao Shih Elementry School website link 高士國小
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Taipei Smith Chiu Iron Meteorite Tossed to Pingtung, Taiwan - 台北Smith Chiu 100公斤铁陨石抛给台湾屏东

Taipei Smith Chiu Iron Meteorite Tossed to Pingtung, Taiwan

- 台北Smith Chiu 100公斤铁陨石抛给台湾屏东

台北Smith Chiu 100公斤铁陨石抛给台湾屏东
Taipei Smith Chiu 100kg Iron Meteorite Tossed 
to Pingtung, Taiwan for Excitement
Perhaps 10,000 People Saw the Meteorites displayed at the -
2015恆春南十字星吶
Pingtung, Hengchun

Taiwan CRUX Star Scream Star Party 2015

Newspaper Story About the Arrival of  the 100kg Iron Meteorite in Pingtung
reported by
c2015 聯合報 UNITED DAILY NEWS

Smith Chiu Meteorites Displayed at the
Ping Tung, Hengchun, Taiwan CRUX Star Scream Star Party 2015
2015恆春南十字星吶

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Tangrong Elementary School Students Hunt for Meteorites - Pingtung, Taiwan

唐榮國小學生的尋找隕石之旅 (屏東，台灣)

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Tangrong Elementary School Students
participating in the meteorite hunt-
賴貞霓 Zhen Ni, Lai
張子芊 Zi Qian, Zhang
黃于倢 Yu Jie, Huang
張晧人 Hao Ren, Zhang
林宥婕 You Jie, Lin
張可霓 Ke Ni, Zhang
蔡承恩 Cheng En, Cai

來自日本的隕石專家Dirk Ross於6/13在屏東開了一場隕石研討會(*** link to the lecture ***)，會前，屏東縣唐榮國小的7名學生已經在老師陪同下到戶外尋找台灣第一顆微隕石，目前學生收集的樣本由Dirk Ross帶回日本做進一步的分析，分析完成後將會公布結果。研討會上，學生可看到各式各樣的隕石。
 感謝唐榮國小各個教職員工與校長施世治(FB汀雪見晴)。特別感謝替代役男王子安先生(FB Andy Wang)籌辦此活動。

Do you or your school want to participate in a worldwide micrometeorite hunt? Contact me for help.
也想參加微隕石狩獵之旅嗎?這是全世界的活動，歡迎你或你的學校參加! 需要更多訊息請聯絡我。email - LunarMeteoriteHunter@blogspot.com

Tangrong Elementary School Students Hunt for Micrometeorites
  Pingtung, Taiwan   Seven Tang Long Elementary School students and their teachers with school staff  took a field trip to hunt for micrometeorites in the hopes of finding Taiwan's first meteorites prior to a lecture about meteorites given by Dirk Ross, a meteorite researcher from Japan, at the Ping Tung, Taiwan 2015 International Meteorite Lecture and Meeting -2015屏東國際隕石研討會前精彩的表演 held on June 13, 2015. Results of the students hunting will be announced once analysis has been performed by Dirk Ross on their collected samples.  Students at the lecture and meeting were able to view meteorites and micrometeorites.
  Thank you to the Tangrong Elementary School teachers and staff, as well as Principal Ting Sha Jen Chin（汀雪見晴）. Special thanks to Mr. Andy Wang for coordinating this event.

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Meteorite Glass Beads From Pingtung San Di Men, Taiwan

Meteorite Glass Beads From Ping Tung San Di Men, Taiwan - 三地門

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Paiwan Glass Meteorite Beads, Ping Tung, San Di Men, Taiwan
c2015 汀雪見晴

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Hsiu Chu  Shih - Paiwan Bead Artist and Tombow Glass Studio Owner
Dirk Ross - Meterorite Expert and Glass Bead Designer
Ting Sha Jen Chin（汀雪見晴）- Principal, Tangrong Elementary School Pingtung

「隕石琉璃珠」大方送 天文同好驚喜
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國際隕石大師Dirk Ross今天(6月15日)結束行程離台，他除了和國內天文同好分享在世界各地追尋隕石的經驗，還和屏東三地門的藝術家合作製作「隕石琉璃珠」送給天文同好。...

more- http://news.sina.com.tw/article/20150615/14556796.html

Google Translate-"Meteorite glass beads" Dafang Song astronomy enthusiasts Surprise
International Meteorite master Dirk Ross today (June 15) end of the trip from Taiwan, in addition to his sharing with the domestic astronomy enthusiasts about his around the world search for meteorites experience, also shared Pingtung Sandimen artist co-production "meteorite glass beads" to the Astronomy enthusiasts....

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The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 11JUN2015 early

Taiwan- Ping Tung Star Party 13 JUNE, 2015
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
先睹為快 2015星吶動畫版 有看到沒！ 後面是望遠鏡陣列大軍 不來可惜 報名請到屏東縣天文教育資源網 --- 2015南十字星吶大菜上桌囉 謝謝觀昇電視台屏 ...

The effect of radar wavelength on meteor echo rate
IEEE Xplore
A new theory is given for the way in which the number of echoes received from sporadic meteor ionization trails varies with radar wavelength and ...

The Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News 10JUN2015 early
Latest Worldwide Meteor/Meteorite News
Forward Scatter Meteor Radar METEOR ECHOES : The US Air Force Space Surveillance Radar has been shut down, but we're still recording meteor .

Rare meteorite taken from Queensland museum may have been stolen to order

The Guardian - 19 hours
Crystal Caves museum owner believes the theft of 12kg Wolf Creek specimen was more about pursuing an object of desire than its monetary value ...

Impact glass on Mars may preserve signs of life from distant past

CBC via Yahoo Canada News - 10 hours
A new resource has been found on Mars that could help scientists in their quest to discover if microbes ever lived on the Red Planet. Impact ...

Life on Mars may be preserved in meteorite-made glass

SlashGear - 8 hours
A paper released this week by K. Cannon and J. Mustard shows how ancient life on Mars could be preserved by meteorite glass. Impact glass, or ...

Impact glass on Mars may possess evidence of life

UPI - 23 hours
Brooks Hays PROVIDENCE, R.I., June 8 (UPI) -- Using satellite data, scientists at Brown University recently identified and mapped impact ...

Asteroid Named in Honor of Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy
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Why Has NASA Announced That A Meteor Is NOT Going To Hit The Earth In September?
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By Michael Snyder Internet buzz about a giant meteor that is going to strike our planet in September has become so intense that NASA has been ... Scare Campaign BRAVO SIERRA!

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This August 11th the Hamilton Amateur Astronomers aim to host another Perseids MeteorShower Public Viewing Night. However, events like these ...

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East Coast Event NOT A ROCKET 31MAR09

NOT A ROCKET
by Dr. Tony Phillips
SpaceWeather.com 31MAR09

News reports that a Russian rocket fell over the US mid-Atlantic coast on Sunday evening, March 29th, are probably incorrect. A spent Russian rocket booster did reenter Earth's atmosphere on March 29th, but apparently not over the USA. According to data published by US Strategic Command, the reentry occurred near Taiwan (24° N, 125° E) at 11:57 p.m. EDT. So what were those lights in the sky over Maryland and Virginia two hours earlier? Eyewitness accounts of the Atlantic Coast fireball are consistent with a meteoritic bolide--a random asteroid hitting Earth's atmosphere and exploding in flight.
http://www.spaceweather.com/

Comet Lulin visits inner Solar System 26FEB09

http://astronomynow.com/090223CometLulinvisitsinnerSolarSystem.html

Comet Lulin visits inner Solar System
BY DR EMILY BALDWIN
ASTRONOMY NOW
23 February, 2009

On 24 February Comet Lulin will make its first visit to the inner Solar System, streaking past the Earth at a distance of 38 million miles, or 160 times further than the Moon. Comet Lulin, formally known as C/2007 N3, was discovered last year byastronomers at Taiwan's Lulin Observatory. Nicknamed the "green comet", Lulin's atmosphere contains poisonous cyanogen and diatomic carbongases. Researchers at the University of Leicester will be using NASA's Swift satellite to monitor the comet in X-ray, ultraviolet and optical light as it closes in on the Earth this week.
"The wonderful ease of scheduling of Swift and its joint UV and X-raycapability make Swift the observatory of choice for observations like these," says Dr Julian Osborne, leader of the Swift project at Leicester. The University of Leicester played a major role in developing Swift's X-Ray Telescope.

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This image of Comet Lulin taken 28 Jan merges data acquired by Swift's Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (blue and green) and X-Ray Telescope (red). At the time of the observation, the comet was 99.5 million milesfrom Earth and 115.3 million miles from the Sun. Image: Univ. of Leicester/NASA/Swift/Carter et al. Comets are thought to represent some of the most pristine ingredients ofthe Solar System. They are made up of dust, gas and ice, and as they approach the Sun, the frozen components sublime and stream out in tails. Swift observations of the comet on 28 January revealed that it is certainly active. "The UVOT data show that Lulin was shedding nearly 800 gallons of water each second," says team member Dennis Bodewits, a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt,which is enough to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool in less than 15 minutes. Although Swift can't see water directly, ultraviolet light from the Sunquickly breaks apart water molecules into hydrogen atoms and hydroxyl (OH) molecules, the latter of which Swift's Ultraviolet/OpticalTelescopes (UVOT) can detect. "This gives us a unique view into the types and quantities of gas a comet produces," Bodewits explains. The images taken so far reveal a hydroxyl cloud spanning a distance greater than the distance between Earth and the Moon, and a tail streaming off at an angle. Solar radiation pushes the icy grains awayfrom the comet, and as they gradually evaporate, they create a thin tail of hydroxyl molecules. Farther from the comet, even the hydroxyl molecule succumbs to solar ultraviolet radiation, breaking into its constituent oxygen and hydrogen atoms."The solar wind - a fast-moving stream of particles from the Sun -interacts with the comet's broader cloud of atoms," says Stefan Immler, also at Goddard. "This causes the solar wind to light up with X-rays,and that's what Swift's XRT sees." This interaction, called charge exchange, results in X-rays from most comets when they pass within about three times Earth's distance from the Sun. Because Lulin is so active and is losing a lot of gas, its X-ray emitting region extends in a largecloud far sunward of the comet. The team hope that the forthcoming observations of Lulin will reveal more on the comet's chemistry andenable scientists to build up a three-dimensional picture of the cometduring its maiden voyage through the Solar System.Comet Lulin will be visible to the naked eye, and for most locations inthe Northern Hemisphere will be easiest to spot after midnight when itis high in the sky. In small telescopes it will appear as a dim fuzzy"star" - brighter in the centre and more diffuse around the edges. It will fade from view by mid-March.

COMET LULIN & SATELLITE DEBRIS UPDATES

Space Weather News for Feb. 18, 2009http://spaceweather.com

COMET LULIN UPDATE: Comet Lulin is approaching Earth and brightening rapidly. Observers say it is now visible to the naked eye as a faint (magnitude +5.6) gassy patch in the constellation Virgo before dawn. Even city dwellers have seen it. Backyard telescopes reveal a vivid green comet in obvious motion. Just yesterday, amateur astronomers watched as a solar wind gust tore away part of the comet's tail, the second time this month such a thing has happened. Lulin's closest approach to Earth (38 million miles) is on Feb. 24th; at that time the comet could be two or three times brighter than it is now.
Browse the gallery for the latest images: http://spaceweather.com/comets/gallery_lulin_page8.htm

SATELLITE DEBRIS: More than a week has passed since the Feb. 10th collision of Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 over northern Siberia, and the orbits of some of the largest fragments have now been measured by US Strategic Command. Today's edition of http://Spaceweather.com features global maps showing where the debris is located. Only 26 fragments are currently plotted, but that number will grow as radar tracking of the debris continues. Check back often for updates.

Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3) Loses Part of Its Tail

Photo credit: Ernesto Guido, Giovanni Sostero & Paul Camilleri [more]

Space Weather News for Feb. 5, 2009
http://spaceweather.com/

COMET TAIL: Comet Lulin (C/2007 N3) is approaching Earth and putting on a good show for amateur astronomers. Yesterday, Feb. 4th, observers witnessed a "disconnection event." A gust of solar wind tore off part of the comet's tail in plain view of backyard telescopes. Photos of the event are featured on today's edition of http://spaceweather.com/.
Activity in the comet's tail and atmosphere will become even easier to see in the weeks ahead as Lulin nears closest approach on Feb. 24th. At that time the comet will lie only 38 million miles from Earth and it should be visible to the naked eye. In the meantime, please note that Feb. 5th-7th, is an especially good time to find Comet Lulin in the pre-dawn sky. The comet is gliding beautifully close to the naked-eye double star Zubenelgenubi. Just point your binoculars at the double star and the comet will materialize right beside it.
Visit http://spaceweather.com/ for photos, sky maps and more information.

Comet Lulin-Green Comet Approaches Earth 4FEB09

Photo by Jack Newton 2009 (c)

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/04feb_greencomet.htm
Green Comet Approaches Earth
NASA Science news02.04.2009 February 4, 2009:

In 1996, a 7-year-old boy in China bent over the eyepiece of a small telescope and saw something that would change his life--a comet of flamboyant beauty, bright and puffy with an activetail. At first he thought he himself had discovered it, but no, helearned, two men named "Hale" and "Bopp" had beat him to it. Mastering his disappointment, young Quanzhi Ye resolved to find his own comet one day.And one day, he did. Fast forward to a summer afternoon in July 2007. Ye, now 19 years old and a student of meteorology at China's Sun Yat-sen University, bent over his desk to stare at a black-and-white star field. The photo was taken nights before by Taiwanese astronomer Chi Sheng Lin on "skypatrol" at the Lulin Observatory. Ye's finger moved from point to point--and stopped. One of the stars was not a star, it was a comet, and this time Ye saw it first.Comet Lulin, named after the observatory in Taiwan where the discovery-photo was taken, is now approaching Earth. "It is a green beauty that could become visible to the naked eye any day now," says Ye. Amateur astronomer Jack Newton sends this photo from his backyard observatory in Arizona: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/images/greencomet/Jack-Newton1.jpg

"My retired eyes still cannot see the brightening comet," says Newton,"but my 14-inch telescope picked it up quite nicely on Feb. 1st."The comet makes its closest approach to Earth (0.41 AU) on Feb. 24,2009. Current estimates peg the maximum brightness at 4th or 5th magnitude, which means dark country skies would be required to see it.No one can say for sure, however, because this appears to be Lulin's first visit to the inner solar system and its first exposure to intense sunlight. Surprises are possible.Lulin's green color comes from the gases that make up its Jupiter-sized atmosphere. Jets spewing from the comet's nucleus contain cyanogen (CN:a poisonous gas found in many comets) and diatomic carbon (C2). Both substances glow green when illuminated by sunlight in the near-vacuum ofspace.In 1910, many people panicked when astronomers revealed Earth would passthrough the cyanogen-rich tail of Comet Halley. False alarm: The wispy tail of the comet couldn't penetrate Earth's dense atmosphere; even it if had penetrated, there wasn't enough cyanogen to cause real trouble. Comet Lulin will cause even less trouble than Halley did. At closest approach in late February, Lulin will stop 38 million miles short of Earth, utterly harmless.To see Comet Lulin with your own eyes, set your alarm for 3 am. The comet rises a few hours before the sun and may be found about 1/3rd of the way up the southern sky before dawn. Here are some dates when it is especially easy to find:
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Feb. 6th:
Comet Lulin glides by Zubenelgenubi, a double star at the fulcrum of Libra's scales. Zubenelgenubi is not only fun to say (zuBEN-el-JA-newbee), but also a handy guide. You can see Zubenelgenubi with your unaided eye (it is about as bright as stars in the Big Dipper); binoculars pointed at the binary star reveal Comet Lulin in beautiful proximity.
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Feb. 16th:
Comet Lulin passes Spica in the constellation Virgo. Spica is a star of first magnitude and a guidepost even city astronomers cannotmiss. A finderscope pointed at Spica will capture Comet Lulin in the field of view, centering the optics within a nudge of both objects. [skymap ]

Feb. 24th:
Closest approach! On this special morning, Lulin will lie just a few degrees from Saturn in the constellation Leo. Saturn is obvious to the unaided eye, and Lulin could be as well. If this doesn't draw you out of bed, nothing will.
[sky map]

Ye notes that Comet Lulin is remarkable not only for its rare beauty,but also for its rare manner of discovery. "This is a 'comet ofcollaboration' between Taiwanese and Chinese astronomers," he says. "The discovery could not have been made without a contribution from both sides of the Strait that separates our countries. Chi Sheng Lin andother members of the Lulin Observatory staff enabled me to get the images I wanted, while I analyzed the data and found the comet."Somewhere this month, Ye imagines, another youngster will bend over an eyepiece, see Comet Lulin, and feel the same thrill he did gazing at Comet Hale-Bopp in 1996. And who knows where that might lead...?"I hope that my experience might inspire other young people to pursue the same starry dreams as myself," says Ye.