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ASTEROIDS



North is up and East to the left.
Credit : OHP/CNRS/IMCCE

With this method of alternating two successive exposures separated by a few minutes (named "blink") solar system objects are detected.

Here, on a field of 12 minutes of degree, we can see five moving objects:

    (1): top left, (3939) Huruhata
    (2): right (40747) 1999 TK5
    (3): middle, a small object, probably (13425) 1999 VG24
    (4): below a distant satellite of Jupiter J-8 (5): middle down (377) Campania, observed on November 9, 1999 at 20hr UTC.