Minor Planets Discovered at ESO

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Sep 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976msngr...6...11.&link_type=abstract

The Messenger, vol. 6, p. 11-12

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Since the discovery on January 1,1801 of the first minor planet (asteroid), more than 2,000 have been observed and catalogued. They have once been called "the vermin of the sky" by a distinguished astronomer and not quite without reason. Most of them move in orbits of low inclination, i.e. close to the Ecliptic (the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun), and photographs of sky areas in the neighbourhood of the Ecliptic always show some of these minor planets. It goes without saying that the larger the telescope, the fainter are the planets that can be recorded and the larger are the number that may be seen on a plate.

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