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Feb 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999noao.prop..224m&link_type=abstract
NOAO Proposal ID #1999A-0224
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Scientific paper
Prior to 1992, most astronomers believed that all significant bodies in the Solar System were known. They were wrong. The discovery of 1992 QB_1 (Jewitt and Luu, 1993) and subsequent searches by these and other investigators have shown that a vast population of small - and perhaps some not so small - bodies exists in an annular region extending from 30 to at least 130 AU. This region, commonly called the Kuiper Belt, is believed to contain roughly 100,000 objects larger than 100 km diameter. To date, however, only 68 Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) have been securely discovered. These objects hold important clues to the dynamical and physical evolution of the Solar System. To make progress in our understanding of the Kuiper Belt, a much larger sample of its members must be discovered. Because small bodies at these distances are very faint and the area of the sky to be searched is vast, progress in discovering KBOs has been slow. The 4-m telescope with MOSAIC and WIYN are uniquely suited to rapidly improve this situation. Here, we request two 2-night runs on the 4-m, each followed by 4 quarter-night blocks of queue-scheduled time on WIYN to search for KBOs.
Buie Marc William
Elliot James L.
Millis Robert L.
Wagner Robert Marcus
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