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Wow, Lily, they seem to like you. By the way, my relatively new daughter-in-law from Jakarta has a sister named Lily, and my daughter-in-law's name, Susyna, also means Lily. Regards,
Mike C.

Interesting report, John. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. Mike C.

Dan, I noticed that cometary track 8516644 was rated a "10" by the Berkeley Team but labeled a "fiducial." Is that correct? Do we have cometary fiducial marks? Regards,
Mike C.

I think I missed that one too, Lily. It's tough to see, but it's there. Try about a 250% zoom. If you go much bigger, it blurs, and much smaller it's darn hard to spot.

Mike

Amen to all that, John, and especially I second your kudos to the Berkeley Team for trying to be so accommodating to the diverse wishes of all dusters - almost to a fault. Like it or not, they are running two parallel projects; one the search for interstellar (and now cometary) dust particles, and t...

Well, I see from the link that I am on record as having no problem with the original sensitivity rating. That's still true. And although I personally prefer the cumulative scoring (which I now track on my own), I must admit that with the moving window approach it is "fun" after a missed PM...

Jason, if it helps, those look like normal fluctuations to me. As explained elsewhere, they stem from the skill score being calculated from a "moving window" of the most recent 100 PMs you've encountered. So, to get a true picture of what's happening, you would need to look at what happene...

Hey, Evelyn, I've also missed (or flubbed) 50 PMs in Phase VI so far - nice round number. A pleasure to be in your company. My missed count might go up soon as I've been traveling the last four days and am now a bit out of practice. Always nice to have an excuse, anyway. Happy dusting - don't let th...

Rats! Double submittal. How do I delete this message? Oh well, just see the next (previous?) one.

After several false starts, I can attest that my latest return to the 1.0000 skill ranking was accomplished without the help of any "aide memoire." Of course, you'll have to take my word on that. It does seem unfair, however, to leap-frog over other dusters already at the 1.0000 level due ...

Random PM generation - another fine idea, John! Might be hard to pull off. Good luck if you decide to attempt it.

Missed three today (so far), but they were "good" misses, not flubs or questionable PMs, so I don't mind. Working on yet another comeback.

Just to interject regarding the "holding on" question posed to John. I'm currently at the 1.0000 skill score for the 12th time. That means I've lost (and recovered) it eleven times. So, maybe we're not so good at holding on as clawing our ways back. It does largely depend on the distributi...

Beautiful work, John. I hope the injury is well on the mend.

No. 3071607V1 is yet another version of that same distressing inverted PM. I got it correct by clicking in the "wrong" place (shallower, bulbous end), rather than the deeper part of the track at the upper edge.

Another of those frightening, probably inverted PMs came up today, 5614831V1. However, when I held my breath and clicked on it in a "compromise" spot as I have in the past, the next movie came up, but neither my power score nor my skill score had changed. I checked my events log, and did n...