Communications in Mars Observations
9 February 2010
at 15:00 GMT
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the world-wide observations of the planet Mars
based on the most recent issue of the
Communications in Mars Observations
(abbreviated as CMO) published by the Mars Section
of the Oriental Astronomical Association (OAA), Japan
A. The Planet Mars Is Now Approaching
Mars will be soon closest to the Earth on 27 January 2010 at 19h
GMT, and it will be at opposition on 29 January at 19.5h GMT. This
is an aphelic apparition and the maximal diameter will be no larger
than 14.1 seconds of arc.
A. Mars Is Now to the West Side of the Sun just after Conjunction
B. First Announcement of the IWCMO
C. The Planet Mars Is Now Come Back in the Morning Sky
D. Programme of the IWCMO
E. Final Announcement of the IWCMO
F. The IWCMO Has Been Successfully Held in Paris and Meudon
A. First Announcement in 2008
B. CAPEN Crater on Mars
C. 2007/2008 Mars Apparition Ended
A. Mars is Now Back in the Eastern Sky
B. Welcome to the New 2007/2008 CMO Mars Gallery
C. Noachis dust has been entrained!
D. Origin of the Present Noachis Dust Storm
E. Subsidence of the Noachis Dust Storm
F. Resonant Dust Cores at Nilokeras
G. MIYAMOTO Crater on Mars
H.
Sean WALKER's Animated Globe in 2007
A. SAHEKI Crater on Mars
B. The 20th Anniversary of the CMO, and the 10th Anniversary of the CMO-Web
C. The 2005 Mars Apparition Ended
D. 2006 Mars at Conjunction
D bis. Mars Now
A. The spc is coming, just before the southern vernal equinox
B. Now the season has come when the centre of the spc starts to deviate from the south pole
C. Noachis at λ=250°Ls
D. Solis L area at λ=300°Ls
E. Chicken at Mt Hamilton
F. Yellow Planet again at Opposition
A. 2004 Lowell Conference at Anamidzu
B.
First Conference on Percival Lowell at Anamidzu in 2004
C. Bill SHEEHAN
D.
Mars Conjunction
E.
Our planet has come back in the morning sky
A. First CMO Announcement in 2003
B. The 11th CMO Meeting was successfully held on 3, 4 and 5 May 2003
C. Spectacular Dust Storm was observed here in Japan from 4 July through 8 July 2003
D. Great! but Yellow Planet
E. The biggest Mars on 27 August 2003
F. M Serpentis still darkened and widened
G. December storm
A. Jeff D BEISH, ALPO Mars Section and Computing Section, visited Japan and kindly gave an interesting talk to the CMO Members on 24 March at Yokohama.
B.
The CMO Editors interviewed Sanenobu FUKUI, now 86 of age living in Yokohama, and listened to his talk about his finding of a Sun-glint flare seen near Solis Lacus on 10 November 1958.
C.
D. The 10th CMO Meeting:
1) Bill SHEEHAN communicated a comment to us on the results of the water distribution over the Martian surface revealed by Odyssey's neutron spectrometer:
2) Tom DOBBINS (11 May) suggested us to refer to the S&T Site on Odyssey's result.
The 10th CMO Planetary Observers Meeting was held at Ina City, Nagano Prefecture, from the night of 2 August to the morning of 5 August 2002.
A. Edom Brightening on 7 and 8 June
B. Yellow Dust Cloud
C. The 9th CMO Meeting of the Mars Observers was successfully held at Okinawa on 20, 21 and 22 July.
This Web-Site is
Edited by Masatsugu MINAMI, Director of the OAA Mars Section, and
Maintained by Masami MURAKAMI, Akinori NISHITA and Hitomi TSUNEMACHI .
Key words;
Commnunications, CMO, Mars, Mars CMO, OAA, CMO/OAA, CMO Home Page, CMO Index, CMO Mars Gallery, Lowell Page, Oriental Astronomical Association, Mars Section, 2001 Dust Storm, 2003 Great Opposition of Mars, OAA_Mars, OAA_CMO
CMO #368
(New Series in a PDF Edition)
(10 February 2010 issue)
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First uploaded on 3 April 2009
What's New!
8 February 2010
at 13:40, 14:00 GMT
(λ=049°Ls, ω=155°, 165°W)
KOHZAKI, Ichiro
Higashi-Kurume, Tokyo, JAPAN
8 February 2010
at 11:39 GMT
(λ=049°Ls, ω=130°W)
AKUTSU, Tomio
Cebu, The Philippines
4 February 2010
at 21:13~21:21 GMT
(λ=047°Ls, ω=305°W)
GERSTHEIMER, Ralf
Habichtswald, GERMANY
8 February 2010
at 19:03 GMT
(λ=049°Ls, ω=239°W)
GHOMIZADEH, Sadegh
Tehran, IRAN
7 February 2010
at 05:30, 05:40 GMT
(λ=048°Ls, ω=049°, 051°W)
FLANAGAN, William D
Houston, TX, USA
1/2 February 2010
at 22:48~02:06 GMT
(λ=046°Ls, ω=355°, 042°W)
CASQUINHA, Paulo
PORTUGAL
5 February 2010
at 04:28, 05:24 GMT
(λ=047°Ls, ω=052°, 065°W)
MELILLO, Frank J
Holtsville, NY, USA
5 February 2010
at 21:35~22:32 GMT
(λ=048°Ls, ω=302°~316°W)
TYLER, David
Flackwell Heath, Buckinghamshire, UK
First uploaded on 9 April 2007
Closed on 6 August 2008
Revised on 7 October 2008
First uploaded on 1 January 2005
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on 26 November 2006
at 09:00 GMT
1 ) Bill DICKINSON
2 ) Christophe PELLIER
(projection map, see LtE)
3 ) Christophe PELLIER
(polar regions, see LtE)
4 ) Robert HEFFNER
5 ) Jan ADELAAR
6 ) Damian PEACH
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2004 Lowell Conference
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(2 - 5 May 2004)
Last updated on 14 May 2004
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Our CMO Web for the 2003 Mars images,
first uploaded on 18 November 2002
Final updating on 15 June 2004 at 08:30 GMT
Also click here for Director's Notices in 2003
2001 Mars Images after the Onset of the Global Dust Storm on 24 June 2001
2001 Mars Images up
until the major dust storm was onset
Here is a history of the CMO Meetings of Planetary Observers
first uploaded on 23 Sept 2002
b) Solar Eclipse on 10 June
a) Our 2001 Leonids
Mars in 2001 Part II (PDF1.7MB) New!
Mars in 2001, Part I (PDF 1.5MB)
Mars in 1999 (PDF 1.9MB)
Mars in 1996/97 (PDF 73.1MB)
Mars in 1994/95 (PDF 47.8MB)
Mars in 1992/93 (PDF 44.6MB)
Mars in 1990/91 (Japanese only) (PDF 33.7MB)
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