IOTA Meeting, Pasco, Washington, 2007 July 20-21
A Faint Asteroidal Occultation by the outer-belt asteroid Hilda occurred in the area the night before the meeting
Several talks described the exciting occultations and developments of the past year, and prospects for the following year
Updated: 2007 August 6, 20:30 UT
The 2007 Annual Meeting of the International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) was held on Friday afternoon and Saturday, July 20-21, at Columbia Basin College in Pasco, WA. Tony George, e-mail triastro@oregontrail.net , was the local organizer. This is an election year, so elections were held. Paul Maley, e-mail pdmaley@yahoo.com , David Dunham, e-mail dunham@starpower.net , and Tony George prepared the agenda for the meeting. The meeting was Webcast; see the Word file below for details on how it was done. Dave Herald and Hristo Pavlov, both in Australia, gave presentations via the webcast system. Click here (Word file) for the last (before the meeting, version 13) information about the meeting, including maps, motel information, information about a field trip to the LIGO facility on Friday morning, and the agenda. Information is given in the Word file about webcasting the meeting. Richard Nugent's minutes of the meeting, including at the top several photoes that he took during the meeting, are here. Below are the files for nine of the presentations that I (David Dunham) gave at the meeting. Homer DaBoll Award #1 Presentation Major Graze Results Major Asteroidal Occultation Results Remote & Long-Distance Asteroidal Occultation Observation Status of Asteroid Occultation Observation Report Collection - this was my introduction to Brad Timerson's presentation given in the Word file on his Web site. I first showed the Euraster European Web site for their asteroidal occultation results that we wanted to approximately emulate to provide similar information for North America, and ending with screen shots of Brad's current North American results Web page. Value of Eclipse Edge Observations Report on the Trans Tasman Occultation Symposium Late 2007 and 2008 Grazing Occultations Late 2007 and 2008 Asteroidal Occultations Below are the files for five of the presentations that Paul Maley gave at the meeting. Opening Remarks On the 30th Anniversary of the First Possible Asteroid Satellite Status of Clay Center Mobile Observatory Proposed 2009 Annual Meeting Site Solar Eclipse Planning for 2008 and Beyond The files for the presentations by others are being posted on Brad Timerson's Web site at http://www.asteroidoccultation.com/observations/NA/ . David Dunham, Paul Maley, Richard Nugent, and Tony George