Asteroid found by accident

• by Mjtbarrett

  Showing a friend the site, navigated away from this target, spotted a galaxy with ?ionising gas cloud and an asteroid. See http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237678598083510491 for image.

  Posted October 30, 2012 8:43 AM

• by delete_adc0630b

  Have fun!

  Posted October 30, 2012 8:53 AM

• by Mjtbarrett

  Ah, good morning Dwarf Nova Spotter of the Year! Thanks for joining in:-) I was showing the site to a friend and we used a random trawl through the sky survey to demonstrate some of the features. This interesting galaxy appeared and had an asteroid visitor alongside! Don't know whether or not it is a known object and would value an opinion on the galaxy as well. Nothing found on NED, SIMBAD or the ADS, so I am a bit stuck now. I don't even know whether it is in the GZ data set or not.
  All good fun!

  Posted October 30, 2012 8:58 AM

• by delete_adc0630b

  Good morning to you both as well 😃
  As far as I can tell this galaxy is:
  2MASX J22545629+0314046

  The asteroid isn't mentioned on the asteroid thread.

  Posted October 30, 2012 9:06 AM

• by Mjtbarrett

  Asteroid thread? Is someone keeping a list?

  Posted October 30, 2012 9:45 AM

• by delete_adc0630b

  Yep 😃
  http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=3393.msg616039#msg616039

  Posted October 30, 2012 9:54 AM

• by Mjtbarrett

  Thanks Abe 😃 I had some help from joinpep and posted the image to the thread. Much appreciated.

  Posted October 30, 2012 5:38 PM

• by delete_adc0630b

  You're welcome, as always. 😃

  Posted October 30, 2012 5:40 PM