Discovery of the candidate Kuiper belt object 1992 QB1

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Apr 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993natur.362..730j&link_type=abstract

Nature (ISSN 0028-0836), vol. 362, no. 6422, p. 730-732.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Comets, Faint Objects, Gas Giant Planets, Solar System, Astronomical Photometry, Brightness Distribution, Charge Coupled Devices, Solar Orbits, Comets, 1992Qb1, Kuiper Belt, Earth-Based Observations, Orbital Elements, Procedure, Optical Properties, Description, Orbits, Color, 1993Fw

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The discovery of a new faint object in the outer solar system, 1992 QB1, moving beyond the orbit of Neptune is reported. It is suggested that the 1992 QB1 may represent the first detection of a member of the Kuiper belt (Edgworth, 1949; Kuiper, 1951), the hypothesized population of objects beyond Neptune and a possible source of the short-period comets, as suggested by Whipple (1964), Fernandez (1980), and Duncan et al. (1988).

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