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[#74] 7Timer! major upgrade project [EN]

  We can expect a new, powerful version of 7Timer! come into being later this year! As the 35km resolution data had been put into use in Feburary, it's now possible for us to upgrade the whole big model for a better performance. So now I'll give a "preview" of the new, powerful 7Timer!.

  There would mainly be three products:

  • 72-hour, local astronomical-class. It likes the "7Timer!-Panel2" very much, but only forecast 72-hour at a scale of 3 hours (or 60-hour? Not yet decide). It would also have forecast elements like cloud cover, seeing, transparency, etc, but the model will be upgraded. There's possibly that it would have a "atmospheric stability", from this you may know the possiblity of a particular shower. This element may be very useful during summer night. Other useful elements such as sky background maybe added. Output graph would be re-designed, as some users reported it's hard to use and not easy to recognize its elements.
  • 384-hour, local daily use. It just like those common forecasts in our daily life, but it will use relatively high resolution data for forecast (0-180 hours would be 35km at a time scale of 3 hours, 192-384 hours would be 175km at a time scale of 12 hours as it's just a "trend" forecast). Elements such as precipitation, temperature, humidity, wind would be there. There may also be a kind of "sky conditions" which tell you the cloud cover, for it maybe useful for you to decide whether to put on a hat to protect sunlight. Visiblity (quite alike "transparency" in the astronomical-class forecast) may also appeared. High time resolution (generaly 3-hour), exellent coverage (any place at anywhere over the world -- you could just request one for your own place, no need to find a nearby big city and see its forecast), exellent time coverage (16 days, and it's free), made it superior to other similar weather services.
  • 384-hour, multiple elements, weather maps. Similar to the "Weather Map" service now, but there would be more elements, longer time coverage up to 384-hour (16 days).

  After the repairments of the Auto-run Program (ArP), server administrator confirmed the program won't bring any majoy bugs to the server, and allow ArP to have some upgrade. So there may be two runs on each day, 00Z and 12Z. First batch would be proceed from 4h to 8h30m UT, and the products would released around 8-9hUT; the second batch would be proceed from 16h to 20h30m UT, and the products would be released round 20-21h UT. The whole website and control files would be rewrite, as I have many big progress these weeks in php field (:-P). I'm confidence I'm now able to conduct some "big" php projects. (Actually, some big projects had been done in recent months)

  The plan is big, you see, and I expect at least two or three months would be spent until we can see its Alpha release, I'll report the progress here. This project is now started yet, and it maybe started in mid or late May.

No more on Pluto, okay?

I was never willing to write English sentences in my "Coconut Essay" box, but now I intend to do so, just because I read a quite notable essay by some lovely outsiders, again talk about the Pluto topic.
Not simply a essay, though, it's actually someone declaring something at the legislature of somewhere, "declaring March 13, 2007 to be Planet Pluto Day". However, at my side, it seems to be funny. Declaring Pluto to be a planet at a legislature? Are you talking about a childhood story?
But it is real, the state of New Mexico had done it, you may see the original text here: http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/memorials/house/HJM054.html. And seems those guys are making it seems to be, like, Pluto was murdered in Prague last year.
I should take notes on this. There are enough discussions about Pluto, and we astronomers need hard works, not useless word-games. The "Pluto vote" had decided everything that is necessary to be answered, and if you are not satisfying with the decision by IAU, you could just set up your own observatory and use your own star catalogs. For Pluto itself, it's still alive, it's just a dwarf planet than classical now. What's the real difference between a drawf planet or a classical one? Maybe the guys at the legislature know well. However, no difference other than a "134340" permanent number was assigned to Pluto in astronomers' eyes.
And, in my opinion, "Pluto issue" is more than a "astronomical issue" in the states. Indeed, as the state of New Mexico declared, New Mexico plays a very important role in astronomy. But haven't the guys at New Mexico contribute enough great things to astronomy? I mean, do they really need such a thing as "Planet Pluto Day" to extra their contribution?
So, dear sirs, no more on "Planet Pluto" anymore, okay? We have many many things of much importances to do. Thanks to Tombaugh for his great discovery, and thanks to Gutierrez on his beautiful poem, and we should go on setting up the telescope tonight and enlarging our knowledge. Pluto is indeed 3,695,950,000 miles from the sun and its diameter is indeed 1,420 miles and New Horizons is indeed flying towards it. And, it's indeed a member of our solar system as a drawf planet as we know today.

Internet usage of the undergraduate students in Sun Yat-sen University, survey and results

Title: Internet usage of the undergraduate students in Sun Yat-sen University, survey and results

Authors: Ye, Q.-z. and Rong, L.-x.

Publication Date: 11/2006 

Abstract: After analyzing the result of a questionnaire and compare it to other results from similar surveys, we found that the students of Sun Yat-sen University have similar habitats with other net users, as they spent much time on net,, and will go to spend more as well. Quite a number of them are addicted to the net. However, compare to other net users, they would devote more time on serious works, it means they can make a better use of the internet services.

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LUSSEC 26: POTENTIAL NEAR-EARTH OBJECT QY67872, NEW DISCOVERIES

Lulin Sky Survey Electronic Circular No. 26
LULIN SKY SURVEY
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URL http://luss.y234.cn/
Issued 2006 July 9, 0:24 UT
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POTENTIAL NEAR-EARTH OBJECT QY67872, NEW DISCOVERIES
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POTENTIAL NEAR-EARTH OBJECT QY67872

  H. C. Lin and Q. Ye, found a potential Near-Earth object in the scan field taken on July 7.6 (UT).
  Q. Ye commented this object was \"faint\", appeared as a 25\" line in the image. This object appeared on the Near-Earth Objects Confirmation Page (NEOCP) on July 8.63 (UT). Approximately positions:
     QY67872 tC2006 07 07.60656 19 40 24.35 -28 54 07.6          20.1 V      D35
  As this object moved fast(about 15\"/min.) and it\'s close to the moon, recovery chance is low.
  QY67872 is the first potential Near-Earth object found by Lulin Sky Survey.

NEW DISCOVERIES

#LUSS   Designation   Discovered date (UT)   Discoverer(s)
63      2006 MP14     June 30, 2006           C. S. Lin, Q. Ye
64(*)   2006 NR       July 4, 2006            C. S. Lin, Q. Ye
(*) Credit change to 2002 VO113.

  2006 NR is the first entire automatic discovery made by Lulin Sky Survey.
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Quanzhi Ye              (C) Copyright 2006 Lulin Sky Survey              LUSSEC 26

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LUSSEC 24: ORBIT UPDATE

Lulin Sky Survey Electronic Circular No. 24
LULIN SKY SURVEY
[email protected]
URL http://luss.y234.cn/
Issued 2006 June 30, 11:21 UT
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ORBIT UPDATE
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K06E67M 15.6   0.15 K0636 315.85310  271.41350  345.66692   10.85682  0.1857879  0.21658564   2.7460996  1 E2006-K42    59   5 1992-2006 0.49 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 EM67           20060516
K06E67K 17.2   0.15 K0636  27.30387  129.54250   12.42579   13.56912  0.1993488  0.22393982   2.6856444    E2006-G22    16   1   18 days 0.39         MPC        0000         2006 EK67           20060328
K06E67L 16.4   0.15 K0636  40.88471   79.47267   51.29469    3.30300  0.1447733  0.21622247   2.7491736  3 E2006-K42    30   2 2004-2006 0.61 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 EL67           20060401
K06F00A 16.1   0.15 K0636 359.84806  356.88022  179.22885   10.51639  0.1824612  0.18745853   3.0236574  4 E2006-J43    37   1   68 days 0.70 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 FA             20060504
K06F35N 18.7   0.15 K0636  76.50690  276.46898  185.08981   22.90207  0.0352918  0.34772903   2.0028208    E2006-G02     9   1   21 days 0.19         MPC        0000         2006 FN35           20060330
K06F35P 16.7   0.15 K0636   0.24522  176.18651   12.82223    9.38573  0.2269845  0.26495708   2.4007800  3 E2006-J26    53   2 2002-2006 0.63 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 FP35           20060505
K06F35Q 16.7   0.15 K0636 356.38269   11.18335  205.35377    5.24468  0.1649952  0.22974324   2.6402247  4 E2006-L23    39   1   66 days 0.47 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 FQ35           20060602
K06F35R 16.8   0.15 K063Q 260.36086   42.11580  262.03350    5.63177  0.1304710  0.26238273   2.4164578    E2006-H32    10   1   22 days 0.66         MPC        0000         2006 FR35           20060420
K06F35S 16.1   0.15 K064F  76.95228   56.04258   69.33367    9.71067  0.0441859  0.22072997   2.7116180    E2006-J39    18   1   40 days 0.15         MPC        0000         2006 FS35           20060508
K06G00E 16.7   0.15 K0636 328.79864  143.69634   76.30777    2.59723  0.1082364  0.29444426   2.2376938  2 E2006-K20    44   4 2000-2006 0.64 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 GE             20060519
K06G00F 17.6   0.15 K0636 295.17814   96.24331  160.95660    5.13027  0.0803253  0.26134174   2.4228705  2 E2006-K11    33   4 1998-2006 0.66 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 GF             20060512
K06G00H 17.4   0.15 K063Q 290.78398  206.35188   68.18417    3.33086  0.1418059  0.24388153   2.5371732    E2006-H32    13   1   19 days 0.45         MPC        0000         2006 GH             20060420
K06G00J 15.5   0.15 K0636 282.44560  187.63319  105.95100    6.19173  0.1404831  0.22120117   2.7077658  1 E2006-K64    62   6 1992-2006 0.55 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 GJ             20060526
K06G00K 15.9   0.15 K0636 343.54383   55.92065  158.80992    9.19046  0.0847871  0.23799603   2.5788311  3 E2006-J11    66   3 2002-2006 0.61 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 GK             20060501
K06G00M 16.9   0.15 K063Q 340.36618  130.25899   88.93848    2.64325  0.2016863  0.17177241   3.2050424    E2006-H32    13   1   19 days 0.51         MPC        0000         2006 GM             20060420
K06G02F 16.4   0.15 K063Q 263.67705  297.98876  357.05971    5.79294  0.1491421  0.29544528   2.2326365    E2006-H32     9   1   15 days 0.29         MPC        0000         2006 GF2            20060418
K06G02R 17.9   0.15 K064F 315.11346  217.80049   39.40147   21.70477  0.0567472  0.35739242   1.9665537    E2006-K01    21   1   34 days 0.82         MPC        0000         2006 GR2            20060508
K06G37M 17.4   0.15 K064F 352.57234  171.92728   47.44553   17.01305  0.1907833  0.22614426   2.6681628    E2006-K44    19   1   50 days 0.50         MPC        0000         2006 GM37           20060524
K06H20Y 16.6   0.15 K0636 289.45302   85.42068  195.66297   12.67455  0.1558929  0.17988719   3.1079156  2 E2006-K64    31   3 2001-2006 0.49 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 HY20           20060503
K06H30Y 15.8   0.15 K0655 317.85909  182.80190   96.58865    4.34889  0.1957802  0.17979820   3.1089411    E2006-M41    17   1   67 days 0.62         MPC        0000         2006 HY30           20060624
K06H30Z 15.9   0.15 K0655 301.84876   80.47751  212.46952   13.97123  0.1297766  0.18143140   3.0902557    E2006-M41    23   1   82 days 0.42         MPC        0000         2006 HZ30           20060623
K06H31A 16.2   0.15 K0655 352.98807  186.09379   44.08749   13.69258  0.1275323  0.19236232   2.9720495    E2006-M41    23   1   64 days 0.39         MPC        0000         2006 HA31           20060623
K06K38X 15.5   0.15 K065P 285.30858  304.55297   72.53465    8.92639  0.4461535  0.18231652   3.0802457    E2006-K64    10   1    4 days 0.40         MPC        0000         2006 KX38           20060526
K06K38Y 19.8   0.15 K065P 351.03145   26.44878  241.63639    6.82322  0.3801310  0.27645629   2.3337360    E2006-M08    18   1   24 days 0.60         MPC        0000         2006 KY38           20060615
K06K39A 15.0   0.15 K0636  20.53162  124.78599   78.07365   15.41280  0.1647302  0.16441769   3.2999221  0 E2006-M47    58   5 2001-2006 0.52 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 KA39           20060622
K06K67U 16.1   0.15 K0636 310.10353  162.09520  137.61109    1.50540  0.1762785  0.17822804   3.1271739  1 E2006-M22    45   6 1994-2006 0.59 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 KU67           20060620
K06K67W 17.9   0.15 K0636 314.06141   34.66582  249.78439    4.59885  0.1860374  0.27450242   2.3447971  2 E2006-M36    28   3 2002-2006 0.45 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 KW67           20060615
K06K67X 16.4   0.15 K0636 326.76487  120.61799  145.97302    8.06732  0.1706253  0.23531082   2.5984126  1 E2006-M22    44   6 1993-2006 0.71 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 KX67           20060619
K06M13F 16.9   0.15 K066E  24.71248  145.09644   77.64652    7.34042  0.0773448  0.29216571   2.2493130    E2006-M47     9   1    9 days 0.28         MPC        0000         2006 MF13           20060625
K06M13M 18.9   0.15 K066E  22.94448  226.19560   18.97760    1.69261  0.1588091  0.27050545   2.3678383    E2006-M47     7   1    4 days 0.60         MPC        0000         2006 MM13           20060625
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Quanzhi Ye              (C) Copyright 2006 Lulin Sky Survey              LUSSEC 24

LUSSEC 23: NEW DISCOVERIES

Lulin Sky Survey Electronic Circular No. 23
LULIN SKY SURVEY
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URL http://luss.y234.cn/
Issued 2006 June 27, 23:14 UT
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NEW DISCOVERIES
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#LUSS   Designation   Discovered date (UT)   Discoverer(s)
47      2006 MF12     June 21, 2006           C. S. Lin, Q. Ye
48      2006 MG12     June 21, 2006           C. S. Lin, Q. Ye
49      2006 MY12     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
50      2006 MZ12     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
51      2006 MA13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
52      2006 MB13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
53      2006 MC13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
54      2006 MD13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
55      2006 MF13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
56      2006 MH13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
57      2006 MJ13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
58      2006 MK13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
59      2006 ML13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
60      2006 MM13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
61      2006 MN13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
62      2006 MO13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye
63      2006 MP13     June 23, 2006           T. C. Yang, Q. Ye

  There are still 12 one-nighters waiting for confirmations at this time.
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Quanzhi Ye              (C) Copyright 2006 Lulin Sky Survey              LUSSEC 23

LUSSEC 22: NEW DISCOVERIES

Lulin Sky Survey Electronic Circular No. 22
LULIN SKY SURVEY
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URL http://luss.y234.cn/
Issued 2006 June 24, 10:32 UT
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NEW DISCOVERIES
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#LUSS   Designation   Discovered date (UT)   Discoverer(s)
45      2006 KB118    May 23, 2006           H. C. Lin, Q. Ye
46      2006 LM5      June 15, 2006          H. C. Lin, Q. Ye

  There are 31 1-nighters wait for confirmations, and 3 2-nighters found by C. S. Lin and Q. Ye are waiting designations at this time.
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Quanzhi Ye              (C) Copyright 2006 Lulin Sky Survey              LUSSEC 22

LUSSEC 21: CONFIRMATIONS ON C/2006 M2 (SPACEWATCH), 2006 KX38

Lulin Sky Survey Electronic Circular No. 21
LULIN SKY SURVEY
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URL http://luss.y234.cn/
Issued 2006 June 23, 2:29 UT
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CONFIRMATIONS ON C/2006 M2 (SPACEWATCH), 2006 KX38
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CONFIRMATIONS ON C/2006 M2 (SPACEWATCH)

  On June 20.66, 2006, C. S. Lin and Q. Ye observed an NEOCP object SW40XA, which latter proved to be a new comet, which was discovered by R. S. McMillan of Spacewatch Project, U.S.A. The discovery was annouced in IAUC 8725 and the observations were published in MPEC 2006-M27. Here are the observations of Lulin Sky Survey:
    CK06M020  C2006 06 20.65718 16 02 05.22 +02 11 15.4          20.9 N EM027D35
    CK06M020  C2006 06 20.66800 16 02 04.62 +02 11 13.7          19.7 N EM027D35
  We did not reconized any cometary appearance of the object. The object is faint, star-like, a little bit diffuse on our image. The image of C/2006 M2, taken by C. S. Lin and proceed by Q. Ye, can be view here: http://csc.lamost.org/yeiht/wordpress/index.php?page_id=140&file=Lulin%20Sky%20Survey/sw40xas001r0011.PNG.
  On June 22, J. Young and R. S. McMillan respectively used Table Moutain's 0.6-m f/16 and Kitt Peak's 1.8m f/2.7 telescope, confirmed that the object has a 4"-6" coma. The object is now 4.6 AU away from the Earth, it has passed the perihelion on late 2005 at about 5.2 AU.

2006 KX38
 
  On June 15, H. C. Lin and Q. Ye failed to do a follow-up observations for a unusual LUSS object, 2006 KX38. As the orbit published in LUSSEC 20, 2006 KX38 was a unusual asteroid with e=0.45. It's possible that this object is a comet, as Q. Ye reported it was "diffuse" (LUSSEC 15). However, the failure on follow-up prove that the orbit was bad. We should go to re-check the previous observations. The orbit is based on a 4-day observations from May 22-26.
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Quanzhi Ye              (C) Copyright 2006 Lulin Sky Survey              LUSSEC 21

LUSSEC 20: ORBIT UPDATE

Lulin Sky Survey Electronic Circular No. 20
LULIN SKY SURVEY
[email protected]
URL http://luss.y234.cn/
Issued 2006 June 16, 7:48 UT
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ORBIT UPDATE
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K06E67M 15.6   0.15 K0636 315.85310  271.41350  345.66692   10.85682  0.1857879  0.21658564   2.7460996  1 E2006-K42    59   5 1992-2006 0.49 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 EM67           20060516
K06E67K 17.2   0.15 K0636  27.30387  129.54250   12.42579   13.56912  0.1993488  0.22393982   2.6856444    E2006-G22    16   1   18 days 0.39         MPC        0000         2006 EK67           20060328
K06E67L 16.4   0.15 K0636  40.88471   79.47267   51.29469    3.30300  0.1447733  0.21622247   2.7491736  3 E2006-K42    30   2 2004-2006 0.61 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 EL67           20060401
K06F00A 16.1   0.15 K0636 359.84806  356.88022  179.22885   10.51639  0.1824612  0.18745853   3.0236574  4 E2006-J43    37   1   68 days 0.70 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 FA             20060504
K06F35N 18.7   0.15 K0636  76.50690  276.46898  185.08981   22.90207  0.0352918  0.34772903   2.0028208    E2006-G02     9   1   21 days 0.19         MPC        0000         2006 FN35           20060330
K06F35P 16.7   0.15 K0636   0.24522  176.18651   12.82223    9.38573  0.2269845  0.26495708   2.4007800  3 E2006-J26    53   2 2002-2006 0.63 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 FP35           20060505
K06F35Q 16.7   0.15 K0636 356.38269   11.18335  205.35377    5.24468  0.1649952  0.22974324   2.6402247  4 E2006-L23    39   1   66 days 0.47 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 FQ35           20060602
K06F35R 16.8   0.15 K063Q 260.36086   42.11580  262.03350    5.63177  0.1304710  0.26238273   2.4164578    E2006-H32    10   1   22 days 0.66         MPC        0000         2006 FR35           20060420
K06F35S 16.1   0.15 K064F  76.95228   56.04258   69.33367    9.71067  0.0441859  0.22072997   2.7116180    E2006-J39    18   1   40 days 0.15         MPC        0000         2006 FS35           20060508
K06G00E 16.7   0.15 K0636 328.79864  143.69634   76.30777    2.59723  0.1082364  0.29444426   2.2376938  2 E2006-K20    44   4 2000-2006 0.64 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 GE             20060519
K06G00F 17.6   0.15 K0636 295.17814   96.24331  160.95660    5.13027  0.0803253  0.26134174   2.4228705  2 E2006-K11    33   4 1998-2006 0.66 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 GF             20060512
K06G00H 17.4   0.15 K063Q 290.78398  206.35188   68.18417    3.33086  0.1418059  0.24388153   2.5371732    E2006-H32    13   1   19 days 0.45         MPC        0000         2006 GH             20060420
K06G00J 15.5   0.15 K0636 282.44560  187.63319  105.95100    6.19173  0.1404831  0.22120117   2.7077658  1 E2006-K64    62   6 1992-2006 0.55 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 GJ             20060526
K06G00K 15.9   0.15 K0636 343.54383   55.92065  158.80992    9.19046  0.0847871  0.23799603   2.5788311  3 E2006-J11    66   3 2002-2006 0.61 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 GK             20060501
K06G00M 16.9   0.15 K063Q 340.36618  130.25899   88.93848    2.64325  0.2016863  0.17177241   3.2050424    E2006-H32    13   1   19 days 0.51         MPC        0000         2006 GM             20060420
K06G02F 16.4   0.15 K063Q 263.67705  297.98876  357.05971    5.79294  0.1491421  0.29544528   2.2326365    E2006-H32     9   1   15 days 0.29         MPC        0000         2006 GF2            20060418
K06G02R 17.9   0.15 K064F 315.11346  217.80049   39.40147   21.70477  0.0567472  0.35739242   1.9665537    E2006-K01    21   1   34 days 0.82         MPC        0000         2006 GR2            20060508
K06G37M 17.4   0.15 K064F 352.57234  171.92728   47.44553   17.01305  0.1907833  0.22614426   2.6681628    E2006-K44    19   1   50 days 0.50         MPC        0000         2006 GM37           20060524
K06H20Y 16.6   0.15 K0636 289.45302   85.42068  195.66297   12.67455  0.1558929  0.17988719   3.1079156  2 E2006-K64    31   3 2001-2006 0.49 M-v 38h MPC        0000         2006 HY20           20060503
K06H30Y 15.8   0.15 K064F 314.39878  182.70145   96.60777    4.34624  0.1965957  0.17974539   3.1095500    E2006-K14    15   1   27 days 0.59         MPC        0000         2006 HY30           20060516
K06H30Z 15.8   0.15 K064F 298.14740   80.55788  212.47320   13.97936  0.1298029  0.18140615   3.0905424    E2006-K81    20   1   58 days 0.31         MPC        0000         2006 HZ30           20060530
K06H31A 16.2   0.15 K0655 353.04861  186.01361   44.08596   13.69907  0.1273984  0.19234253   2.9722534    E2006-L01    21   1   40 days 0.36         MPC        0000         2006 HA31           20060531
K06K38X 15.5   0.15 K065P 285.30858  304.55297   72.53465    8.92639  0.4461535  0.18231652   3.0802457    E2006-K64    10   1    4 days 0.40         MPC        0000         2006 KX38           20060526
K06K38Y 19.6   0.15 K065P 351.03345   26.47414  241.64165    6.83196  0.3806960  0.27594042   2.3366437    E2006-L43    16   1   18 days 0.91         MPC        0000         2006 KY38           20060609
K06K39A 15.0   0.15 K065P  40.89311  120.64719   77.40617   17.30512  0.1211844  0.16420223   3.3028082    E2006-K72    14   1    6 days 0.31         MPC        0000         2006 KA39           20060528
K06K67W 18.1   0.15 K065P 341.20604   26.82713  249.64735    4.34278  0.1776929  0.28312273   2.2969571    E2006-L52    10   1   10 days 0.37         MPC        0000         2006 KW67           20060604
K06K67X 16.2   0.15 K065P 345.61630  120.57805  145.96754    8.06736  0.1704605  0.23534540   2.5981581    E2006-M01    13  
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Quanzhi Ye              (C) Copyright 2006 Lulin Sky Survey              LUSSEC 20

LUSSEC 19: 2006 KY38

Lulin Sky Survey Electronic Circular No. 19
LULIN SKY SURVEY
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URL http://luss.y234.cn/
Issued 2006 June 6, 8:19 UT
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2006 KY38
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Epoch 2006 May 25.0 TT = JDT 2453880.5                  MPC
M 351.04376              (2000.0)            P               Q
n   0.27583875     Peri.   26.45435     -0.03598914     +0.99385029             T = 2453912.96910 JDT
a   2.3372179      Node   241.64288     -0.93668396     -0.07007031             q =     1.4472533
e   0.3807794      Incl.    6.83439     -0.34832160     +0.08574237    Earth MOID = 0.43550 AU
P   3.57           H   19.6           G   0.15
From 11 observations 2006 May 22-June 5.
 
Residuals
20060522 *D35  0.0-  0.4+    20060529  704  1.0-  2.7-    20060605  704  0.0-  0.8-
20060522  D35  0.0-  0.5-    20060529  704  0.4-  3.3-    20060605  704  0.7+  0.3+
20060525  D35  0.0-  0.2-    20060529  704  0.5+  0.3+    20060605  704  1.2+  0.2+
20060525  D35  0.1+  0.5+    20060529  704  0.5-  0.4-
20060525  D35  0.1-  0.2-    20060605  704  1.9-  0.3+

  Minor Planet Center published a update orbit of 2006 KY38 in MPEC 2006-L33. Now definitely the object is not an Amor group, but an Alinda group member. Alindas are held by the 1:3 resonance with Jupiter. If I understand what's happening here, an object that enters this resonance has its eccentricity steadily pumped up, until it eventually has a close encounter with an inner planet that breaks the resonance. Some Alindas, such as (4179) Toutatis, have perihelia very close to the earth's orbit, the result is a series of close passes at four-year intervals.
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Quanzhi Ye              (C) Copyright 2006 Lulin Sky Survey              LUSSEC 19