Minor Planet Bulletin

The Minor Planet Bulletin
BULLETIN OF THE MINOR PLANETS SECTION OF THE ASSOCIATION OF LUNAR AND PLANETARY OBSERVERS

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The Minor Planet Bulletin is the journal for almost all amateurs and even some professionals for publishing asteroid photometry results, including lightcurves, H-G parameters, color indexes, and shape/spin axis models. It is considered to be a refereed journal by the SAO/NASA ADS. All MPB papers are indexed in the ADS.

Print subscriptions are no longer available to individuals. Institutions (e.g., college libraries) can still obtain print copies via a special subscription. See details in MPB 37-4 or contact the editor, Richard Binzel.

Annual voluntary contributions of $5.00 or more in support of the publication are welcome.
Please send a check, drawn on a U.S. bank and payable in U.S. funds, to "Minor Planet Bulletin" and send it to:

Minor Planet Bulletin
c/o Melissa Hayes-Gehrke
UMD Astronomy Department
1113 PSC Bldg 415
College Park, MD 20742

Authors Guide and Word Templates (v.2.9: updated 2019 November 14)
The ZIP file contains the Authors Guide PDF as well as a "starter" paper in Word 97 (DOT) and Word 2007+ (DOTX).
Please read this updated guide since there are a number of changes from previous guides.

The Pts column is no longer required and has been removed from the template for the standard table
to allow more room for the other columns.
The phase column should have only two values: for the first and last date in the range.
If the phase reaches an extrema between those dates, put an asterisk before the first value. For example,
*7.2,13.7.
Use semicolons to separate names in the references section. For example:
Smith, J.J.; Jones, A.A. (2019).
This also applies if using several references to the same author in the text. For example:
"This asteroid was observed at three previous apparitions (Jones, 2015; 2017; 2018)..."

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Issue 29-4 (2002 Oct-Dec)
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Lightcurve Photometry of Asteroid 1059 Mussorgskia
Pages 67
Brincat, S. H.
2002MPBu...29...67B Download PDF

Photometry of Asteroid 2962 Otto and 3165 Mikawa
Pages 68
Ellsworth, N.; Hughes, S.; Ditteon, R.
2002MPBu...29...68E Download PDF

Rotation Periods and Lightcurves of 1858 Lobachevskij, 2384 Schulhof and (5515)
Pages 69
Ditteon, R.; Bixby, A. R.; Sarros, A. M.; Waters, C. T.
2002MPBu...29...69D Download PDF

Rotation Period and Solar Phase Coefficients of (202) Chryseïs
Pages 70-71
Slivan, S. M.; Kr?o, M.
2002MPBu...29...70S Download PDF

Collaborative Photometry of 3779 Kieffer
Pages 72
Ditteon, R.; Tollefson, E. R.; Gross, J.
2002MPBu...29...72D Download PDF

Photometry of 769 Tatjana, 818 Kapteyna, 1922 Zulu, and 3687 Dzus
Pages 72-73
Stephens, R. D.
2002MPBu...29...72S Download PDF

Asteroid Photometry at the Palmer Divide Observatory: Results for 1333 Cevenola and 2460 Mitlincoln
Pages 74-75
Warner, B. D.
2002MPBu...29...74W Download PDF

Lightcurve Photometry of Asteroid (1248) Jugurtha
Pages 75-76
Koff, R. A.; Gross, J.
2002MPBu...29...75K Download PDF

Lightcurves and Period Determinations for 399 Persephone and 976 Benjamina
Pages 76-78
Bembrick, C.
2002MPBu...29...76B Download PDF

Rotation Periods and Light Curves of Minor Planets (412) Elisabetha (547) Praxedis, and (7564) 1988 CA
Pages 78-79
Cooney, W. R., Jr.; Robinson, L.
2002MPBu...29...78C Download PDF

The Minor Planet Observer: The Long Story
Pages 80-81
Warner, Brian
2002MPBu...29...80. Download PDF

Asteroid Photometry Opportunities
Pages 82
Pravec, P.; Harris, A. W.; Warner, B. D.
2002MPBu...29...82P Download PDF