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Spacewatch was founded in 1980 by Tom Gehrels and Robert S. McMillan, and is currently led by astronomer Melissa Brucker at the University of Arizona. Spacewatch uses several telescopes on Kitt Peak for follow-up observations of near-Earth objects. [3] The Spacewatch Project uses three telescopes of apertures 0.9-m, 1.8-m, and 2.3-m.
Optical and radar observations indicate that it is a water-rich object. [ 10 ] From light curve photometry in 1998, the object is measured to have a rotation period of only 10.7 minutes, which was considered to be one of the shortest sidereal days of any known Solar System object at the time; most asteroids with established rotational rates ...
Many modern telescopes and observatories are located in space to observe astronomical objects in wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum that cannot penetrate the Earth's atmosphere (such as ultraviolet radiation, X-rays, and gamma rays) and are thus impossible to observe using ground-based telescopes. [1]
Spacewatch 1.8 m Telescope: 72 in mirror scavenged from the Mount Hopkins MMT: Spacewatch 0.9 m Telescope: Spacewatch: Super-LOTIS: Designed to look for visible signatures of GRBs: Auxiliary solar telescopes: Two 0.9 m instruments: Bok Telescope: Versatile: MDM Observatory 1.3 m McGraw-Hill Telescope: Originally at Ann Arbor: MDM Observatory 2. ...
This is a list of observatory codes (IAU codes or MPC codes) published by the Minor Planet Center. [1] For a detailed description, see observations of small Solar System bodies . List
1991 VG is a very small near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 5–12 meters (16–39 feet) in diameter.It was first observed by American astronomer James Scotti on 6 November 1991, using the Spacewatch telescope on Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, in the United States.
Pages in category "Discoveries by the Spacewatch project" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 464 total. ... Code of Conduct;
125P/Spacewatch is a periodic Jupiter-family comet. It was discovered on September 8, 1991, by Tom Gehrels using the 0.91 m Spacewatch telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory . [ 4 ] It was the first comet discovered with the use of a CCD [ 5 ] and also the faintest comet upon discovery up to that point. [ 4 ]