Re: Asteroid Searches

[Seiichi Yoshida <comet@aerith.net>]

Dear John,

> It seems that asteroids aren't as important as I though they were, with
> all these new surveys quietly beavering away (so quietly I'd forgetting
> about them over and above their comet discoveries)

In the MISAO Project, I have not tried to search known asteroids in
the images. But I have found some asteroids by chance during new
variable stars survey and so on. 

The astrometry data is published in the MISAO Project Home Page. 
However, I have not reported them to MPC, because most of those
asteroids are as bright as 12-14 mag, and the Minor Planet Checker
always said "None needed at this time.".

So I guess the astrometry of bright (especially numbered) asteroids is
not so important.

If I am wrong, I will immediately send mails to the MISAO image
observers in order encourage to report the astromety data to MPC :-)

Best regards,

--
Seiichi Yoshida
comet@aerith.net
http://www.aerith.net/