IOTA Links For Occultations by Asteroids for ACM 2023 - Updated 2023 June 23
Most important is our ACM 2023 presentation so you can read it leisurely and see all of its details, including its narration. Some other ACM presentations involving occultations: Slow rotating asteroids program, including occultations by them. Mexican occultation program Occultations by Comet SW-1(poster) and abstract. One-page astracts or e-posters for other ACM 2023 occultation presentations and posters: About Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) ApophisAndDidymosOccultationResults Potentially Hazardous NEAs important for occultations About the Lucy mission Trojan asteroids Occultation Results for the Polymele System - a Lucy Target Interpreting the Occultations by Polymele Upcoming Occultations by Lucy targets (poster) Occultations by Chaos and other TNOs and Centaurs Occultations by Chaos and other TNOs Occultation by rings of Chariko observed with JWST _ _ Our earlier important papers about NEA occultations: PDC 2023 NEA Occultations paper PDC 2023 NEA Occultations presentation Narration for the PDC 2023 NEA Occultations presentation PDC 2021 NEA Occultations paper more about early Phaethon and about Apophis The May 7th occultation by (2102) Tantalus published in Stardust of the National Capital Astronomers. _ _ IOTA occultation observing resources: The IOTAoccultations groups.io, very active occultations e-mail list server, the observers there will tell you the answer to your occultation-related questions, including possibilities for local help. Good occultation observing primer by George Viscome. The Main IOTA Web site, see especially the Observing tab for practical information. Current IOTA asteroidal occultation report form, old ExCel (.xls) format. Send reports to: reports@asteroidoccultation.com - Norm Carlson is our current reports coordinator who receives those messages and can snswer your questions about them. See "Other Useful Resources" below for occultation reports Web sites. _ _ _ _ _ IOTA occultation predictions for 2023 Although these primarily give information about occultations of the brighter events visible from North America, they include links to worldwide input data to fainter event magnitudes that you can use with IOTAs free Occult4 program to predict comprehensive predictions for your observatory or region, including instructions on how to do that. Near-Earth Asteroids Bright Main-Belt Asteroids, has links to the others Trojan Asteroids (Lucy targets are emphasized) Selected Special Main-Belt Asteroids IOTA main asteroidal occultations predictions Occult Watcher for finding asteroidal occultations for your observatory and area, and for coordinating observations, comprehensive, generally only for events during the next 2 months. _ _ _ _ _ Other Useful Resources MNRAS paper about IOTA’s/NASA’s asteroidal occultation archive and results NASA Asteroid Occultation Planetary Data System Small Bodies Node IOTA-maintained archive but you can get the most up-to-date version of IOTAs archive of planetary and asteroidal occultation observations by obtaining IOTAs free Occult4 program - it can be used to fit new shape models and other analysis tasks. Worldwide asteroiodal occultation observations with links at the top to refional sites, most of which include sky-plane plots with fitted ellipses or (when available) shape models and samll-scale maps of reporting station locations. IOTA YouTube videos (Tutorials and notable occultations) SwRI Lucy Mission Trojan occultations Web site, SwRI expeditions planned for many of them. RECON TNO/Centaur occultations Web site (Mainly, w. USA events): Lucky Star TNO/Centaur/Trojan occultations Web site ACROSS (Asteroid Collaborative Research via Occultation Systematic Survey), primarily for NEA occultations, especially Didymos/Dimorphoa. ______ David and Joan Dunham, 2023 June 12; updated June 17, 21, and June 23 e-mail: dunham@starpower.net cell phone: 301-526-5590