THE ASTRONOMER Electronic Circular No 517 1991 May 02 20.03UT Ed:Guy M Hurst, 16,Westminster Close, Kempshott Rise, Basingstoke, Hants, RG22 4PP, England. Telephone: (0256)471074 Int:+44256471074 Telex: 9312111261 Answerback: TA G JANET BOXES: GMH at UK.AC.CAM.ASTRONOMY.STARLINK or GUYH at UK.AC.SUSSEX.CLUSTER TELECOM GOLD: 10074:MIK2885 PRESTEL 256471074 ------------------------------------------------------------------- (4751) ALICEMANNING = 1991 BG Minor Planet Circular 18144 received today announces the naming of asteroid 1991 BG which was discovered by Brian Manning on 1991 January 17. The citation reads: "Named in honor of Alice K.Manning, wife of the discoverer, for her support and encouragement of the discoverer's hobby over many years. The attention given to practical details such as warm clothing on cold nights, and the push needed to persuade him to finish the construction and fitting of measuring-machine encoders has contributed greatly to cometary astrometry and success in discovering minor planets." The discovery observation appeared on MPC 17707 and in 'The Astronomer', Vol 27 No 323, p237 (1991). The numbering with identifications (1991 BG = 1954 SD1 = 1976 PH = 1982 SM5) was published on MPC 17813. Brian himself is a long standing subscriber to TA and Gareth Williams, now Associate Director of CBAT, and who computed the orbit for this asteroid, is also a subscriber. A message of congratulations has been today sent to Alice Manning. COMPUSERVE We have now established contact between our JANET Group and Compuserve subscribers to whom we can now offer our circulars: The following information has been downloaded about this system: From: CBS%UK.AC.NSFNET-RELAY::MIL.DDN.NIC::SERVICE-REPLY To: GUYH Subj: re: whois compuserve CompuServe, Inc. (COMPUSERVE-DOM) 5000 Arlington Center Boulevard Columbus, OH 43220 Domain Name: COMPUSERVE.COM Administrative Contact: CSI.COMPUSERVE.COM (614) 457-8600 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: OSC.EDU (614) 292-0902 Record last updated on 31-Oct-89. Domain servers in listed order: TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU 128.146.8.60 ACCUVAX.NWU.EDU 129.105.49.1 No known hosts under this secondary domain. Compuserve-Janet Gateway To communicate with those on Compuserve from your JANET box change the comma separating the two numbers to a dot. Then, using mail, send to:CBS%NSFNET-RELAY::COM.COMPUSERVE::mailbox Don Miles is 100014,3650 on compuserve. From Janet use: CBS%NSFNET-RELAY::COM.COMPUSERVE::100014.3650 Guy M Hurst