The Asteroid Thread
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The Asteroid Thread is one of the biggest in the Galaxy Zoo forum, with 1951 pages, and 29,252 posts.
Why not continue, here in Galaxy Zoo Talk?
Perhaps in seven years' time, someone will write words that mirror what elizabeth wrote, the day before the GZ forum asteroid thread closed forever, "Yes well 7 years boggles the mind a bit. Asteroids are fun to post. The new asteroid zoo is also fun. I for one have learned a great deal here on the zoo forum. As for not many people around these days .....With all the new zoo's it is not surprising. I do believe they come often and check out this wonderful Archive though."
To kick off, I'll post a slow-moving one I found in Radio Galaxy Zoo, SDSS J010120.83+044150.1:
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16 Psyche Discovered 1852-Mar-17 by De Gasparis, A. at Naples
Main-belt Asteroid
diameter 253.16 km!
587732577238908943 ra, dec 11 06 21.9983 +06 26 52.456
2002-02-13 08:22:50
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88 Thisbe Discovered 1866-Jun-15 by Peters, C. H. F. at Clinton
Main-belt Asteroid
diameter 232 km
2009-10-16 02:14:02
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3 Juno Discovered 1804-Sep-01 by Harding, K. at Lilienthal
Main-belt Asteroid
diameter 233.92km
2002-02-13 06:39:32
http://data.sdss3.org/sas/dr12/boss/photoObj/frames/301/2986/2/frame-irg-002986-2-0147.jpg
but half cut in thumbnail:
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Main-belt Asteroid
diameter 530km
Magnitudes
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8.83 7.19 6.76 6.27 7.15
2003-04-27 02:49:29
Earth distance 1.369AU
http://data.sdss3.org/sas/dr12/boss/photoObj/frames/301/3903/6/frame-irg-003903-6-0020.jpg
Hubble site news, June 20, 2007
Credits for Vesta: NASA, ESA, and L. McFadden (University of Maryland)
below Full View of Vesta Sept 9, 2012
Image Credit: NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ UCLA/ MPS/ DLR/ IDA
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8 Flora Discovered 1847-Oct-18 by Hind, J. R. at London
Main-belt Asteroid
diameter: 135.89 km
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12.15 9.48 8.88 11.31 9.51
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12.11 14.67 8.91 11.43 9.54
Flora no longer in thumbnail
but seen in frame as brigthest "star"
http://data.sdss3.org/sas/dr12/boss/photoObj/frames/301/5045/6/frame-irg-005045-6-0087.jpg DATE-OBS= '2004-12-12' TAIHMS = '09:10:39.46'
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19 Fortuna Discovered 1852-Aug-22 by Hind, J. R. at London
Main-belt Asteroid
diameter: 200km
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12.01 9.81 12.58 9.27 10.02
2001-10-15 07:30:01
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21 Lutetia Discovered 1852-Nov-15 by Goldschmidt, H. at Paris
Main-belt Asteroid
diameter: 95.76km
2006-01-31 09:27:50
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Main-belt Asteroid
diameter: 181km
2002-12-11 12:03:54
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Clear example of asteroid identification by c_cld;
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😃 First test run on my first asteroid find on GZ, yields almost one of the first asteroids of the MPC catalogue 😃 :
12 Victoria discovered 1850-sep-13 by Hind, J. R. At London
Main belt asteroid, S-type asteroid, suspected binary asteroid
Diameter 112.77 km
AGZ000argk, r band date / time 2014-08-19 02:57
http://imagine.legacysurvey.org/?ra=329.7305&dec=11.5548&zoom=16&layer=decals-dr1j
Model of 12 Victoria made by light-curve inversion. Author: Astronomical Institute of the Charles University: Josef Ďurech, Vojtěch Sidorin
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_Victoria
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Cool new DECaLS feature by Dustin; if you go into the data of DECaLS images there is now a JPL query link to find the asteroids name!
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