Deep Ecliptic Survey
19521 Chaos | 19 November 1998 | list |
28978 Ixion | 22 May 2001 | list |
38083 Rhadamanthus | 17 April 1999 | list |
(42301) 2001 UR163 | 21 October 2001 | list |
53311 Deucalion | 18 April 1999 | list |
54598 Bienor | 27 August 2000 | list |
88611 Teharonhiawako | 20 August 2001 | list |
148780 Altjira | 20 October 2001 | list |
(361701) 2007 VZ171 | 24 November 2003 | list |
The Deep Ecliptic Survey (DES) is a project to find
Robert L. Millis
.
Since 1998 through the end of 2003, the survey covered 550 square degrees with sensitivity of 22.5, which means an estimated 50% of objects of this magnitude have been found.
The survey has also established the mean Kuiper Belt plane and introduced new
formal definitions of the dynamical classes of Kuiper belt objects.[2]
The remarkable first observations and/or discoveries include:[3]
- 28978 Ixion, large plutino
- cubewano)
- 1998 WW31, the first binary trans-Neptunian object (TNO)
- semi-major axis
- (87269) 2000 OO67, remarkable for its semi-major axis of more than 500 AU and extreme eccentricity (0.96) taking the object from the inside of the Neptune's orbit to more than 1000 AU
- 2001 QR322, the first Neptune trojan
- 2002 XU93, with one of the most inclinedorbits (>68°)
References
- ^ "Minor Planet Discoverers (by number)". Minor Planet Center. 4 September 2016. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2016.
- doi:10.1086/427395.
- S2CID 14820512.