Indiana Asteroid Program
Indiana Asteroid Program is the name for an asteroid search program that used photographic asteroid observations and was operated from 1949 to 1967 at the Goethe Link Observatory in Brooklyn , Indiana, USA .
The project had four goals:
- Rediscovery of asteroids whose position deviated greatly from the predicted position;
- Recalculation of path data or revision of old calculations;
- Detection of the absolute brightness with an accuracy of 0.1 mag; and
- Training of students.
The search program was initiated by Frank K. Edmondson of Indiana University .
The recordings were made with a 10-inch-f / 6,5- Cooke triplet - astrographs prepared and managed by Tom Gehrels photometrically evaluated.
A total of 119 asteroids were discovered during the program's lifetime.
The search program was discontinued in 1967 because the light pollution from the neighboring city of Indianapolis no longer allowed the long exposure times required. The approximately 7,000 photo plates are kept in the archives of the Lowell Observatory .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Gehrels , "The Indiana Asteroid Program," Astronomical Journal , v. 63, no. 1256 (February 1958), p. 50. bibcode : 1958AJ ..... 63 ... 50G
- ↑ Minor Planet Discoverers (English)