User talk:Rfassbind/Minor planet articles rewrites and overall revision

Re: Category redundancy

Based on each of the 3 articles, it seems like these categories are not redundant (but might contain MPs in the wrong cat), since they can be disambiguated by date (hopefully there are more precise dates somewhere that include at least the month, if not the day of each transition).

Category:Discoveries by the Goethe Link Observatory (1939–1948 (first light–donation to IU))
Category:Discoveries by Indiana University (1948, 1968–present (donation/pre-IAP operation, post-IAP operation))
Category:Discoveries by the Indiana Asteroid Program (1949–1967)

With a very large grain of salt, I might say "the MPC has already done this" (*cringe & bites tongue*). It'd be worth a closer look. ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 13:40, 1 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Oops Tom, I did not notice this new page/post in my user-space until now. Thanks for the time you took to look into this. I will come back to this. Rfassbind – talk 20:37, 2 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Tom, to the best of my knowledge and this article, the different categories are just an artifact of inconsistent labeling. There are 119 asteroids in the category, exactly as the article says. All bodies were discovered within the time period of the Indiana Asteroid Program. The highest numbered body in the category, 30718 Records, matches with the last named body of the article. And finally, non of the 119 categorized bodies was discovered before 1949 (Goethe Link Obs.). The whole thing seems uncontroversial to me. What you think? Rfassbind – talk 15:16, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Great - that settles it! ~ Tom.Reding (talk ⋅dgaf) 16:06, 16 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks

You are doing an awesome job with these Minor Planet article updates, keep up the good work! Please let me know if there is anything I can help with? I noticed that you edited 7166 Kennedy which has a particular interest for me, since it is named after my Father, but I am interested in Astronomy in general, mostly due to him. can I ask what prompted you to start such a huge chunk of work? — M3TA info (view) 14:52, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]