New Moon for Uranus

Spudley writes "With a headline that is just begging for puns, the BBC has a story about a new moon that has been discovered around Uranus. I wonder if this one will turn out to be a old rocket engine too?"

Re:In Utter Trepidation...

[foolish]

There are several astro-databases, though the one I am most familar with is the MPC, which can be found at:

http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/mpc.html

IIRC, the ESA, NASA and other space agencies also have their own DBs for this information, though they usually propigate the information out once they have enough confirmed sightings.... that's the real rub, there are sooo many planetoids in the KB, the main belt and NEOrbits that nailing down orbits for these faint objects is *really* tricky.

Unfortunately I am not in a good area for any sort of observations. I hope the current window for the Extra-solar planet observation folks get enough volunteers, /. certainly has had enough articles on it.

--foolish

Re:In Utter Trepidation...

[CheshireCatCO]

Just to toss in another good site, I'm very partial to:
http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/

As you can no doubt tell, it's maintained by JPL, so it has pretty much the best orbital and physical data around.