From: "Rick E Nygren" <[r--yg--n] at [efawest.navfac.navy.mil]> Newsgroups: rec.music.gdead Subject: FYI: Garcia asteroid Date: 11 Dec 1995 18:26:29 GMT Comments : ------------------------[ Original Message ]-------------------- To : <[dead heads] at [nemesis.Berkeley.EDU]> Cc : From : [k--tm--n] at [uchicago.edu] (Eileen 'Lee' Katman) Date : Friday, November 10, 1995 14:57:08 GMT |Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 11:57:06 -0700 |From: [e--o] at [as.arizona.edu] (E. Olszewski) |To: [r--rn--m] at [astronomy.com] |Cc: [e--o] at [oz.as.arizona.edu], [s--df--d] at [nrao.edu] |Subject: asteroid 4442 named GARCIA | |Dear Folks: | |Thanks to the generosity of Professor Tom Gehrels of the Lunar and |Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona (he provided the |asteroid), Simon Radford (NRAO, Tucson) and I (Steward Observatory) were |able to propose that an asteroid be named after the late Jerry Garcia of |the Grateful Dead. The official citation, published in Minor Planet |Circular 25976, follows below. | |Brian Marsden informs me that a recent orbit solution was published |in MPC 16219, and he sent me his own unpublished orbital solution. |I will append that after the citation. | |Edward Olszewski ([e--o] at [as.arizona.edu]) |__________________________________________________________________________ | |(4442) Garcia = 1985 RB1 | Discovered 1985 Sept. 14 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak. | Named in memory of Jerry Garcia (1942-1995), lead guitarist for the |``Grateful Dead''. He was also a superb banjo player and steel pedal guitar |player. His recorded works embrace many styles, among them |rock-and-roll, bluegrass and country, and experimental electronic music. |Garcia and the Grateful Dead have also sought to preserve endangered and |underappreciated music. Garcia was best known for his consummate |musicianship and for live performance and improvisations. Those |embracing Garcia's music have now spanned several generations, attesting to |the quality and timelessness of his music. Name proposed by T. Gehrels, |following a suggestion by S. Radford. Citation prepared by E. Olszewski and |S. Radford. |____________________________________________________________________________ | | The object's numbering and most recent orbit solution were published |in 1990 on MPC 16219 for the osculation epoch 1990 Nov. 5 (and equinox |B1950.0). Updated J2000.0 values and for a current epoch are published in |the 1995 edition of "Efemeridy Malykh Planet" (ITA, St. Peterburg), but I |give here our own unpublished (and very slightly different) version: | | (4442) 1985 RB1 = 1988 BC5 |Epoch 1995 Oct. 10.0 TT = JDT 2450000.5 (M-P) Williams, MPC 16219 |M 151.32536 (2000.0) P Q |n 0.19015057 Peri. 264.62589 -0.94642778 +0.20526230 |a 2.9950515 Node 287.03770 -0.07297125 -0.88795321 |e 0.2500688 Incl. 15.11310 -0.31456263 -0.41159019 |P 5.18 H 12.4 G 0.15 | | The object was at opposition on Sept. 6 so is now moving over into |the evening sky. Here is an ephemeris for the next month: | |Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V |1995 10 10 22 34.83 +10 39.6 2.830 3.684 143.9 9.2 18.1 |1995 10 20 22 31.20 +09 49.4 2.927 3.692 134.3 11.1 18.3 |1995 10 30 22 29.42 +09 04.5 3.044 3.699 124.6 12.8 18.4 |1995 11 09 22 29.54 +08 27.9 3.176 3.706 115.0 14.0 18.6 |1995 11 19 22 31.43 +08 01.2 3.319 3.712 105.7 14.9 18.7 |1995 11 29 22 34.98 +07 45.3 3.470 3.717 96.8 15.3 18.8 |1995 12 09 22 40.00 +07 40.6 3.622 3.722 88.1 15.3 18.9 |____________________________________________________________________________ | ********** ********* *********** ********** ********** ********** Eileen 'Lee' Katman Biological Sciences Division [l--e] at [bio-3.bsd.uchicago.edu] Office of Academic Computing 5-9421 (or 312.702.2056) University of Chicago
