File:2002 MS4 discovery annotated zoom.gif

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English: Discovery images of Kuiper belt object 2002 MS4, taken on 18 June 2002 by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) survey at Palomar Observatory, as part of Michael E. Brown's Caltech Wide Area Sky Survey for trans-Neptunian objects. 2002 MS4 is seen moving slowly to the right, centered in the image. Each of the three images were taken in 150-second exposures at approximately 1.5-hour intervals. North is up and East is left.
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NEAT-Palomar images from https://sbnarchive.psi.edu/pds3/neat/tricam/data/p20020618/obsdata/ Raw images ordered by time:

  • 20020618062228b.fit.fz
  • 20020618074621b.fit.fz
  • 20020618091854b.fit.fz
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Bauer, J. M. and Lawrence, K. J., Eds. (2020). Near Earth Asteroid Tracking V1.0. urn:nasa:pds:gbo.ast.neat.survey::1.0. NASA Planetary Data System; https://doi.org/10.26033/xkmy-me08.

Rendered in CDS's Aladin Sky Atlas, images published and archived on behalf of PDS Small Bodies Node/NASA.

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current01:05, 20 June 2022Thumbnail for version as of 01:05, 20 June 2022651 × 430 (436 KB)Nrco0eUploaded a work by Bauer, J. M. and Lawrence, K. J., Eds. (2020). Near Earth Asteroid Tracking V1.0. urn:nasa:pds:gbo.ast.neat.survey::1.0. NASA Planetary Data System; https://doi.org/10.26033/xkmy-me08. Rendered in CDS's Aladin Sky Atlas, images published and archived on behalf of PDS Small Bodies Node/NASA. from NEAT-Palomar images from https://sbnarchive.psi.edu/pds3/neat/tricam/data/p20020618/obsdata/ Raw images ordered by time: * 20020618062228b.fit.fz * 20020618074621b.fit.fz * 2002061...

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