Deep Ecliptic Survey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES) is a project to find Kuiper belt objects (KBOs), using the facilities of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO). The principal investigator is Robert L. Millis.
19521 Chaos | 19 November 1998 | list |
28978 Ixion | 22 May 2001 | list |
38083 Rhadamanthus | 17 April 1999 | list |
(42301) 2001 UR163 | 21 October 2001 | list |
53311 Deucalion | 18 April 1999 | list |
54598 Bienor | 27 August 2000 | list |
88611 Teharonhiawako | 20 August 2001 | list |
148780 Altjira | 20 October 2001 | list |
(361701) 2007 VZ171 | 24 November 2003 | list |
Since 1998 through the end of 2003, the survey covered 550 square degrees with sensitivity of 22.5, which means an estimated 50% of objects of this magnitude have been found.
The survey has also established the mean Kuiper Belt plane and introduced new formal definitions of the dynamical classes of Kuiper belt objects.[2]
The remarkable first observations and/or discoveries include:[3]
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.