Mount Lemmon Survey
Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS) is part of the Catalina Sky Survey and has the registration number G96. The main task is the search for near-earth objects (NEO) and potentially dangerous asteroids ( potentially hazardous asteroid , also called PHAs). The instrument used for this is a 152 cm Cassegrain telescope installed on the summit of Mount Lemmon .
On October 7, 2008, the Italian astronomer Andrea Boattini accidentally rediscovered the "lost" comet 206P / Barnard-Boattini . The comet had completed twenty orbits since its first discovery on October 13, 1892, passing Jupiter at distances between 0.3 and 0.4 AU in 1922, 1934 and 2005 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ 206P at Garry Kronk's Cometography ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
