Spring 2004
The two pictures above were taken by two
students, Kevin and Chris, in the Astronomy program
at the Talcott Mountain Science Center, as part of the Spring 2004
Sky Saturday program. It shows
the movement of Near Earth Asteroid 2004 JA during a 3 minute
interval. Both students were able to
measure the asteroid's position, and contribute their astrometric
observations to the Minor Planet Center in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, part of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics.
The students astrometric observations can be seen at: