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M.P.E.C. 2016-T104 Issued 2016 Oct. 11, 02:44 UT The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets and routine data on comets. They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A. Prepared using the Tamkin Foundation Computer Network MPC@CFA.HARVARD.EDU URL https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/ ISSN 1523-6714 2014 UZ224 Additional Observations: K14UM4Z 7C2014 08 19.42458303 09 29.78 -10 17 00.6 22.8 i ET104W84 K14UM4Z 7C2014 09 27.31120103 08 56.22 -10 29 11.5 23.6 g ET104W84 K14UM4Z 7C2014 09 27.31256903 08 56.21 -10 29 11.2 23.5 r ET104W84 K14UM4Z 7C2014 09 27.31393503 08 56.22 -10 29 11.3 22.9 i ET104W84 K14UM4Z 7C2014 10 28.34163203 07 55.24 -10 37 22.8 22.7 i ET104W84 K14UM4Z 7C2015 01 08.14069403 05 31.64 -10 38 07.9 22.7 z ET104W84 K14UM4Z 7C2015 11 30.25380803 07 58.72 -10 35 21.4 22.8 i ET104W84 K14UM4Z 7C2015 12 17.19166703 07 23.66 -10 35 03.1 23.0 r ET104W84 K14UM4Z 7C2015 12 17.19306703 07 23.66 -10 35 02.8 23.6 g ET104W84 K14UM4Z 7C2016 01 16.11657403 06 41.95 -10 30 25.2 23.0 i ET104W84 K14UM4Z 7C2016 07 18.41357603 11 49.06 -09 56 39.0 ET104W84 K14UM4Z 7C2016 07 18.41623803 11 49.06 -09 56 39.1 22.4 i ET104W84 Observer details: W84 Cerro Tololo-DECam. Observers S. Kent, R. Kron, J. Annis, C. Davis, A. Plazas, A. Elliott, K. Grabowski, H. Spinka, K. Bechtol, B. Nord, E. Buckley-Geer, R. Rosenfeld, N. MacCrann, K. Romer, C. Bonnett, A. Palmese, J. Smith, E. Balbinot, A. Kremin, C. Sanchez, A. Walker. Measurers D. Gerdes, M. Sako, S. Hamilton, C. Scheibner, L. Zullo, T. Khain, G. Bernstein, W. Wester, J. Annis. 4.0-m f/2.87 reflector + CCD. Orbital elements: 2014 UZ224 Epoch 2016 July 31.0 TT = JDT 2457600.5 MPC M 320.26291 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00086742 Peri. 29.55170 -0.90390587 -0.26034054 a 108.8889451 Node 131.14108 +0.24688295 -0.96547772 e 0.6513458 Incl. 26.78510 +0.34928927 +0.00869379 P 1140 H 3.5 G 0.15 U 5 Residuals in seconds of arc 140819 W84 0.1+ 0.0 141021 W84 0.2+ 0.0 151217 W84 0.1- 0.2+ 140927 W84 0.0 0.2- 141023 W84 0.2- 0.0 160116 W84 0.1+ 0.1+ 140927 W84 0.1- 0.1+ 141028 W84 0.2- 0.0 160718 W84 0.1+ 0.1- 140927 W84 0.1+ 0.1+ 150108 W84 0.1+ 0.1+ 160718 W84 0.0 0.1- 141021 W84 0.1+ 0.2- 151130 W84 0.0 0.0 141021 W84 0.1- 0.1- 151217 W84 0.1- 0.1- Ephemeris: 2014 UZ224 a,e,i = 108.89, 0.65, 27 q = 37.965 Date TT R. A. (2000) Decl. Delta r Elong. Phase V 2016 09 11 03 11 55.5 -10 11 45 91.0723 91.6052 121.7 0.5 23.2 ... 2016 09 26 03 11 36.3 -10 16 31 90.8908 91.5866 133.7 0.5 23.2 ... 2016 10 04 03 11 23.0 -10 18 56 90.8122 91.5767 139.6 0.4 23.2 ... 2016 10 10 03 11 11.9 -10 20 39 90.7627 91.5693 143.7 0.4 23.2 2016 10 11 03 11 09.9 -10 20 55 90.7553 91.5681 144.3 0.4 23.2 2016 10 12 03 11 07.9 -10 21 12 90.7482 91.5668 144.9 0.4 23.2 ... 2016 10 18 03 10 55.6 -10 22 46 90.7104 91.5594 148.3 0.3 23.2 ... 2016 10 26 03 10 38.1 -10 24 39 90.6743 91.5495 151.5 0.3 23.2 ... 2016 11 10 03 10 03.4 -10 27 24 90.6528 91.5309 152.3 0.3 23.2 A. U. Tomatic (C) Copyright 2016 MPC M.P.E.C. 2016-T104

MPEC number: Enter an MPEC number in one of the following forms:</s>A Raisin In the Sun: Still Good

A massive brick wall descends from the sky and surrounds Lena Younger's modest Chicago home on three sides. One little window is knocked out of the brick, and an American flag hangs off the sill like a tired dream. Set designer Michael Ganio's constant metaphor is loud, constant, imposing: the American Dream is seductive, but it's a bill of goods, and it's sold to black people at ten times the price.

Aside from that heavy scenic gesture, director Timothy McCuen Piggee faithfully reproduces for the Seattle Rep Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 classic, A Raisin in the Sun. The Youngers are preparing to inherit some insurance money following the death of the father, who worked his whole life so his children would have a better one, but housing discrimination, sexism, racism, poverty, and con artists conspire to make that goal nearly impossible to achieve.

Many of conversations happening between and within the characters of this play are alive today. Walter Lee's struggle, for instance, is a study in the intersection of sexism and racism. He's an enterprising and ambitious man constantly trying to prove himself as such in a society that infantilizes black men as "boys" and servants, but his adherence to male supremacy poisons his relationship with his wife and mother, his two biggest supporters.

The scenes between Beneatha "Bennie" Younger (Claudine Mboligkpelani Nako) and George Murchison (Tré Cotten) explore the tensions between radical and incremental approaches to social change, settling a little uneasily on a kind of punctuated equilibrium theory of justice, while Bennie and Joseph Asagai (Ricardy Charles Fabre) play out a back-to-Africa argument. And of course, when Karl Linder (Charles Leggett) walks through the door and offers to pay the family NOT to move in to his 100% white neighborhood, recent articles about redlining in Chicago and current examples of housing discrimination jump to mind. Mama Younger's (Denise Burse) wisdom and strength ultimately offers a little leaf of hope that determination and the right kind of pride will lead to liberation, albeit slowly.

On opening night, the actors warmed to their roles by the second act. You could see Water Lee's pain, anguish, anxiety, and joy pulse through Prioleau's body—a mixture of his high-energy and Burse's projection of power carries you through the long play. Mia Ellis's portrayal of the firm but endlessly forgiving Ruth reached its apotheosis during a hilarious release of frustration and hope when the prospect of leaving her small house beset by roaches becomes a reality. And Leggett perfectly embodies the insidious nature of systemic racism: he spits out the phrase "you people" while holding up a calm, nice-guy exterior.

The play is three and a half hours long. If you walked into the theater with a grape and a sun lamp you'd have your own raisin by the end. But the show doesn't feel long. Rightly confident in the power of Hansberry's language and the complexity of her characters, Piggee doesn't rush you through the show. Therefore, you do not feel rushed. You feel a story rise to meet the demands of its genre. This story needs to be a play, it needs to be three and a half hours long, and if you've only ever read this play in a Language Arts class back in high school, you need to see this production.
Astronomers announce that 2014 UZ224 is the third most distant Solar System object known from our Sun, currently over 90 times the Earth's distance from the Sun (90.8 AU or 8.44 billion miles), after Eris (96.2 AU) and V774104 (~103 AU).