[meteorite-list] Some interesting events for June

[Ron Baalke]

Some interesting events for this month:

Jun 06 - Asteroid 9937 Triceratops Closest Approach To Earth (1.578 AU)
         An asteroid named after a dinosaur - how ironic

Jun 06 - Asteroid 6373 Stern Closest Approach To Earth (1.634 AU)
         Alan Stern, PI for the Pluto New Horizons mission.

Jun 07 - Asteroid 9951 Tyrannosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.162 AU)
         Another dinosaur

Jun 09 - Asteroid 6524 Baalke Closest Approach To Earth (1.613 AU)
         Yours truly

Jun 11 - Cassini, Phoebe Flyby
         Phoebe is most likely a captured asteroid

Jun 13 - Asteroid 32096 Puckett Closest Approach To Earth (1.285 AU)
         Tim Puckett has made some important observations of comets

Jun 14 - Asteroid 2606 Odessa Closest Approach To Earth (1.525 AU)
         I thought this was named after Odessa, Texas, where the crater/
         meteorites are, but it named after a Russian city. I'll throw
         it in anyway.

Jun 15 - Asteroid 2200 Pasadena Closest Approach To Earth (1.252 AU)
         Where JPL is located.

Jun 16 - Comet Wild 2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.848 AU)
         Stardust flew by this comet last January

Jun 18 - Asteroid 4664 Hanner Closest Approach To Earth (1.811 AU)
         Martha Hanner is one of the scientists on the Stardust project

Jun 26 - Asteroid 25143 Itokawa Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
         Target of the MUSES-C mission, asteroid sample return mission

Jun 30 - Asteroid 1677 Tycho Brahe Closest Approach To Earth (1.301 AU)
         Brahe's observations helped Kepler derive his famous equations

Ron Baalke