History of minor planet observations at the Crimean astrophysical observatory

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Sep 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002mmsai..73..626c&link_type=abstract

in Memorie della Società' Astronomica Italiana, vol. 73, no. 3, p. 626

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The history of minor planet observations carried out in Crimea is here discussed. Crimea is and has always been the only place where asteroids have been observed and discovered. The first Russian minor planet survey began in 1912 at Simeis Observatory, a branch of the Pulcovo Observatory at that time. The Simeis asteroid program lasted till 1941, was revived in 1947 and was finally stopped in 1953. More than 900 new unnumbered minor planets were discovered at Simeis, and 148 of them were numbered. The new Crimean program of minor planet observations started in 1963 as a result of a collaboration between the Leningrad Institute of Theoretical Astronomy and the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. The joint observing team of these two institutions had observed, during three decades of its activity about 90% of all minor planets, known by then, had measured more than 60 000 positions of them and had discovered more than 15 000 unnumbered minor planets. 1245 of them had received permanent numbers in mid 2001 and have been registered as discoveries of the CrAO. Now the next stage of the minor planet observations is beginning at the Crimean Observatory, using the 64-cm telescope equipped with the CCD.

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