Comments on: BAsteroid

By: philplait rock video | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

philplait rock video | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:29:47 +0000

[...] last year I announced that my friend Jeff Medkeff had named an asteroid after me (as well others named after PZ Myers, [...]

By: Jeff Medkeff (Blue Collar Scientist) has died | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:01:01 +0000

[...] was an astronomer, specifically an asteroid hunter. He found dozens of big rocks out there, and just recently named four of them after PZ Myers, Rebecca Watson, Mike Stackpole, and me. He fell ill earlier this year, and we knew it wasn’t good. The odds of survival were pretty [...]

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:03:29 +0000

The IAU wouldn’t let someone name it BAsteroid, would they?

You can, in principal, get the size and shape of the object by watching a background star wink out. Multiple timings of random stars should give pretty good data, eventually. A line of scopes could even get the shape of the beast. Of course, if the minimum scope is 16″ with tracking drives and CCD, a whole bunch of them in a line might be very expensive. And such instruments are often less than portable, so a BAsteroid star party might be out of the question.

There should be lots of 16th mag stars. Is it enough for frequent occulations?

By: Carnival of Space #47 » astroengine.com

Carnival of Space #47 » astroengine.com — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:13:57 +0000

[...] In this weeks Carnival, we fly over to The Martian Chronicles for a Mars-themed look at the goings on in the Universe. Some really excellent articles have been posted this week, specifically “Artificial Gravity Via Bigelow Space Stations?” – a good question over at Colony Worlds, “The Science of the Brightest GRB” carries out a superb analysis of the recent gamma ray burst over at the aptly named Starts With A Bang and over at Bad Astronomy, Phil is honoured by having an asteroid named after him… [...]

By: Carnival of Space #47 « The Martian Chronicles

Carnival of Space #47 « The Martian Chronicles — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:46:28 +0000

[...] finally, Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy shows off his shiny new asteroid. Of course technically, as an asteroid, it is quite old and has quite a low albedo. Explore posts [...]

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By: adrian

adrian — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:10:19 +0000

Now the question is which asteroid will be picked first by the doomsayers: yours or PZs, prolly PZs since it’s bigger