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Mount Lemmon Survey

Part of the Catalina Sky Survey

Summary

Part of the Catalina Sky Survey

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Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS) is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. MLS uses a 1.52 m cassegrain reflector telescope (with 10560x10560-pixel camera at the f/1.6 prime focus, for a five square degree field of view) operated by the Steward Observatory at Mount Lemmon Observatory, which is located at 2791 m in the Santa Catalina Mountains northeast of Tucson, Arizona.

It is currently one of the most prolific surveys worldwide, especially for discovering near-Earth objects. MLS ranks among the top discoverers on the Minor Planet Center's discovery chart with a total of more than 160,000 numbered minor planets.

History

Andrea Boattini and the survey accidentally rediscovered 206P/Barnard-Boattini, a lost comet, on 7 October 2008. The comet has made 20 revolutions since 1892 and passed within 0.3–0.4 AU of Jupiter in 1922, 1934 and 2005. This comet was also the first comet to be discovered by photographic means, by the American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard, who did so on the night of 13 October 1892.

On 12 January 2008, Mount Lemmon Survey discovered the near-Earth asteroid at an apparent magnitude of 21 using a 1.5 m reflecting telescope.

was discovered by the Mount Lemmon Survey on 27 September 2009 and it is a stable Mars trojan asteroid. The survey also discovered the unusual Aten asteroid , a dynamically cold Kozai resonator, on 31 March 2012.

References

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References

  1. "List Of Observatory Codes". Minor Planet Center.
  2. "CSS Telescopes".
  3. "Catalina Sky Survey Facilities{{Snd}} The Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLS)". University of Arizona.
  4. [http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/iauc/08900/08995.html IAUC 8995]
  5. [http://www.comethunter.de/ The COCD Homepage]
  6. [http://cometography.com/pcomets/206p.html 206P at Garry Kronk’s Cometography] {{webarchive. link. (2010-09-25)
  7. (2013). "Three new stable L5 Mars Trojans". [[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters]].
  8. Christou, A. A.. (2013). "Orbital clustering of Martian Trojans: An asteroid family in the inner solar system?". [[Icarus (journal).
  9. (2013). "A resonant family of dynamically cold small bodies in the near-Earth asteroid belt". [[Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters]].
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