Indiana Asteroid Program
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The Indiana Asteroid Program was a photographic astronomical survey of asteroids during 1949–1967, at the U.S. Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana.[2] The program was initiated by Frank K. Edmondson of Indiana University using a 10-inch f/6.5 Cooke triplet astrographic camera.[3][4]
| see § List of discovered minor planets |
Its objectives included recovering asteroids that were far from their predicted positions, making new orbital calculations or revising old ones, deriving magnitudes accurate to about 0.1 mag, and training students.[3]
When the observatory's 36-inch (0.91-meter) reflecting telescope proved unsuitable for searching for asteroids, postdoctoral fellow James Cuffey arranged the permanent loan of a 10-inch (25-centimeter) lens from the University of Cincinnati.[5] Mounted in a shed near the main observatory, the instrument using the borrowed lens was responsible for all of the program's discoveries.[6]
By 1958, the program had produced 3,500 photographic plates showing 12,000 asteroid images and had published about 2,000 accurate positions in the Minor Planet Circular.[3] When the program ended in 1967, it had discovered a total of 119 asteroids.[1] The program's highest numbered discovery, 30718 Records, made in 1955, was not named until November 2007 (M.P.C. 61269).[7][8]
The program ended when the lights of the nearby city of Indianapolis became too bright to permit the long exposures required for the photographic plates.[9] The program's nearly 7,000 photographic plates are now archived at Lowell Observatory.[10]
The Indiana Asteroid Program has discovered 119 asteroids during 1949–1966. The Minor Planet Center officially credits these discoveries to "Indiana University" rather than to the program itself.[1]
| 1575 Winifred | 20 April 1950 |
| 1578 Kirkwood | 10 January 1951 |
| 1602 Indiana | 14 March 1950 |
| 1615 Bardwell | 28 January 1950 |
| 1721 Wells | 3 October 1953 |
| 1728 Goethe Link | 12 October 1964 |
| 1729 Beryl | 19 September 1963 |
| 1741 Giclas | 26 January 1960 |
| 1746 Brouwer | 14 September 1963 |
| 1751 Herget | 27 July 1955 |
| 1761 Edmondson | 30 March 1952 |
| 1762 Russell | 8 October 1953 |
| 1763 Williams | 13 October 1953 |
| 1764 Cogshall | 7 November 1953 |
| 1765 Wrubel | 15 December 1957 |
| 1766 Slipher | 7 September 1962 |
| 1767 Lampland | 7 September 1962 |
| 1788 Kiess | 25 July 1952 |
| 1798 Watts | 4 April 1949 |
| 1799 Koussevitzky | 25 July 1950 |
| 1822 Waterman | 25 July 1950 |
| 1824 Haworth | 30 March 1952 |
| 1826 Miller | 14 September 1955 |
| 1827 Atkinson | 7 September 1962 |
| 1852 Carpenter | 1 April 1955 |
| 1853 McElroy | 15 December 1957 |
| 1952 Hesburgh | 3 May 1951 |
| 1953 Rupertwildt | 29 October 1951 |
| 1955 McMath | 22 September 1963 |
| 1971 Hagihara | 14 September 1955 |
| 1988 Delores | 28 September 1952 |
| 1994 Shane | 4 October 1961 |
| 1996 Adams | 16 October 1961 |
| 1997 Leverrier | 14 September 1963 |
| 2007 McCuskey | 22 September 1963 |
| 2023 Asaph | 16 September 1952 |
| 2024 McLaughlin | 23 October 1952 |
| 2026 Cottrell | 30 March 1955 |
| 2059 Baboquivari | 16 October 1963 |
| 2065 Spicer | 9 September 1959 |
| 2069 Hubble | 29 March 1955 |
| 2070 Humason | 14 October 1964 |
| 2086 Newell | 20 January 1966 |
| 2110 Moore-Sitterly | 7 September 1962 |
| 2160 Spitzer | 7 September 1956 |
| 2161 Grissom | 17 October 1963 |
| 2165 Young | 7 September 1956 |
| 2168 Swope | 14 September 1955 |
| 2182 Semirot | 21 March 1953 |
| 2196 Ellicott | 29 January 1965 |
| 2227 Otto Struve | 13 September 1955 |
| 2300 Stebbins | 10 October 1953 |
| 2301 Whitford | 20 November 1965 |
| 2322 Kitt Peak | 28 October 1954 |
| 2326 Tololo | 29 August 1965 |
| 2334 Cuffey | 27 April 1962 |
| 2351 O'Higgins | 3 November 1964 |
| 2405 Welch | 18 October 1963 |
| 2417 McVittie | 15 February 1964 |
| 2466 Golson | 7 September 1959 |
| 2488 Bryan | 23 October 1952 |
| 2496 Fernandus | 8 October 1953 |
| 2516 Roman | 6 November 1964 |
| 2528 Mohler | 8 October 1953 |
| 2624 Samitchell | 7 September 1962 |
| 2641 Lipschutz | 4 April 1949 |
| 2653 Principia | 4 November 1964 |
| 2751 Campbell | 7 September 1962 |
| 2753 Duncan | 18 February 1966 |
| 2775 Odishaw | 14 October 1953 |
| 2842 Unsold | 25 July 1950 |
| 2848 ASP | 8 November 1959 |
| 2853 Harvill | 14 September 1963 |
| 2974 Holden | 23 August 1955 |
| 2996 Bowman | 5 September 1954 |
| 3070 Aitken | 4 April 1949 |
| 3145 Walter Adams | 14 September 1955 |
| 3167 Babcock | 13 September 1955 |
| 3180 Morgan | 7 September 1962 |
| 3185 Clintford | 11 November 1953 |
| 3282 Spencer Jones | 19 February 1949 |
| 3363 Bowen | 6 March 1960 |
| 3371 Giacconi | 14 September 1955 |
| 3428 Roberts | 1 May 1952 |
| 3433 Fehrenbach | 15 October 1963 |
| 3447 Burckhalter | 29 September 1956 |
| 3474 Linsley | 27 April 1962 |
| 3520 Klopsteg | 16 September 1952 |
| 3572 Leogoldberg | 28 October 1954 |
| 3654 AAS | 21 August 1949 |
| 3717 Thorenia | 15 February 1964 |
| 3882 Johncox | 7 September 1962 |
| 3959 Irwin | 28 October 1954 |
| 3961 Arthurcox | 31 July 1962 |
| 4045 Lowengrub | 9 September 1953 |
| 4046 Swain | 7 October 1953 |
| 4048 Samwestfall | 30 October 1964 |
| 4299 WIYN | 28 August 1952 |
| 4300 Marg Edmondson | 18 September 1955 |
| 4388 Jurgenstock | 3 November 1964 |
| 4423 Golden | 4 April 1949 |
| 4463 Marschwarzschild | 28 October 1954 |
| 4911 Rosenzweig | 16 October 1953 |
| 4912 Emilhaury | 11 November 1953 |
| 5074 Goetzoertel | 24 August 1949 |
| 5536 Honeycutt | 23 August 1955 |
| 5567 Durisen | 21 March 1953 |
| 5568 Mufson | 14 October 1953 |
| 7001 Noether | 14 March 1955 |
| 7368 Haldancohn | 20 January 1966 |
| 7723 Lugger | 28 August 1952 |
| 8059 Deliyannis | 6 May 1957 |
| 8320 van Zee | 13 September 1955 |
| 9143 Burkhead | 16 September 1955 |
| 9144 Hollisjohnson | 25 October 1955 |
| 9260 Edwardolson | 8 October 1953 |
| 9261 Peggythomson | 8 October 1953 |
| 19912 Aurapenenta | 14 September 1955 |
| 30718 Records | 14 September 1955 |
| External images | |
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 http://newsinfo.iu.edu/pub/libs/images/usr/4718.jpg Professor Frank Edmondson manipulates the 10-inch lens telescope at the Goethe Link Observatory in Brooklyn, Indiana, in the 1950s. Source: Indiana University News Bureau. | |
| http://newsinfo.iu.edu/pub/libs/images/usr/4719.jpg Professor Frank Edmondson looks on as Esther Barnhart -- wife of Philip Barnhart (M.A. Astronomy 1955) -- takes precise measurements of an asteroid's location. By comparing locations of an asteroid on different plates taken an hour apart, its orbit could be calculated. Source: Indiana University News Bureau. |
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