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English: Discovery images of Kuiper belt object 2002 MS4, taken on 18 June 2002 by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) survey at Palomar Observatory, as part of Michael E. Brown's Caltech Wide Area Sky Survey for trans-Neptunian objects. 2002 MS4 is seen moving slowly to the right, centered in the image. Each of the three images were taken in 150-second exposures at approximately 1.5-hour intervals. North is up and East is left.
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NEAT-Palomar images from https://sbnarchive.psi.edu/pds3/neat/tricam/data/p20020618/obsdata/ Raw images ordered by time:

  • 20020618062228b.fit.fz
  • 20020618074621b.fit.fz
  • 20020618091854b.fit.fz
Author

Bauer, J. M. and Lawrence, K. J., Eds. (2020). Near Earth Asteroid Tracking V1.0. urn:nasa:pds:gbo.ast.neat.survey::1.0. NASA Planetary Data System; https://doi.org/10.26033/xkmy-me08.

Rendered in CDS's Aladin Sky Atlas, images published and archived on behalf of PDS Small Bodies Node/NASA.

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Public domain This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.)
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current01:05, 20 June 2022Thumbnail for version as of 01:05, 20 June 2022651 × 430 (436 KB)Nrco0eUploaded a work by Bauer, J. M. and Lawrence, K. J., Eds. (2020). Near Earth Asteroid Tracking V1.0. urn:nasa:pds:gbo.ast.neat.survey::1.0. NASA Planetary Data System; https://doi.org/10.26033/xkmy-me08. Rendered in CDS's Aladin Sky Atlas, images published and archived on behalf of PDS Small Bodies Node/NASA. from NEAT-Palomar images from https://sbnarchive.psi.edu/pds3/neat/tricam/data/p20020618/obsdata/ Raw images ordered by time: * 20020618062228b.fit.fz * 20020618074621b.fit.fz * 2002061...

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