Talk:Frank B. Zoltowski

message: Finished a Google Sweep, needs physical sources for more in depth info.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.251.239.137 (talk) 23:50, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I found some printed articles online from BBC, NASA, Science Daily, and Wired.  Unfortunately, they mainly focus on one near earth object.  I tried to find some more biographical information, but only found many repeats of what was on Wikipedia.
Has anyone found which University?  UofA can mean Arizona, Alberta, Australia and others.  It might not be important, but I am curious.
I visited the NASA small bodies database at http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb_query.cgi and hoped to generate a table of discoveries by Frank.  But their interface does not include discoverer.  I wrote to the webmaster there to ask if there is a way to generate a table of all discoveries for one discoverer.
I think the discoveries table should be linked to the NASA database as well as to wikipedia pages, if they exists.  This can be done with links such as http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=8430+Florey.  I am working to generate a table like that.
The current incoming links to this page are mostly from the list of minor planets pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minor_planets:_10001%E2%80%9311000
There is a Category page for discoveries by Frank B. Zoltowski, but it only has a few links in it.  I added a couple for the existing wikipedia pages for his asteroids, but it seems redundant to generate pages for all the asteroids, when the much more detailed NASA database exists.  I did put in a link to the category page, besides the one at the bottom, so people can see there is such a page associated with Frank B. Zoltowski, without having to scroll all the way to the bottom.
RC711 (talk) 20:55, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  References Added, University?, Table of discoveries, Incoming Links, Category page. 

message: I got a note back from NASA small body database.  They suggest using IAU Minor Planet Database for discover data.  That is the source for NASA's data, for numbered asteroids.  IAU might have more.
The direct link to the MPC database for a numbered asteroid is like
http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%E2%9C%93&object_id=8430
RC711 (talk) 21:12, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor Planet Center Database Links 

message: I received a current listing of Frank B. Zolkowski's discoveries and contributions from the Minor Planet Center.  I am copying the message and table here for the record.  I checked the list against the current list in the article, and it is an exact match. Kudo's to whoever added the table for getting a current list.  Thanks.
For checking this report against the existing list:
An * on the line indicates discovery of a numbered object.  There are 220 of these.
An *N on the line indicates discovery of a numbered object, and a name has been assigned.  There are 7 of these.
Total discoveries is 227.  I will leave for now, the other contributions indicated.
RC711 (talk) 14:31, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Authoritative list of Discoveries from Minor Planet Center 

message: The Associate Director of the Minor Planet Center read the article and commented that Frank was probably not the discoverer of AN10.  Rereading the articles, it is clear the MPC used Frank's information to refine estimates for closest approach distance and date.  Correction made accordingly.
RC711 (talk) 17:05, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correcting Discoverer 

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