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Indiana Asteroid Program
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The Indiana Asteroid Program was a program of photographic asteroid observations made with a 10-inch f/6.5 Cooke triplet astrographic camera at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana. The program was initiated by Frank K. Edmondson of Indiana University in 1949 and continued until 1967. It had four objectives:
- recovering asteroids that were far from their predicted positions;
- making new orbital calculations or revising old ones;
- deriving magnitudes accurate to about 0.1 mag; and
- training students.
By 1958, the program had produced 3,500 photographic plates showing 12,000 asteroid images and had published about 2,000 accurate positions in the Minor Planet Circular. When the program ended, it had discovered a total of 119 asteroids. The program's photographic plates are now archived at Lowell Observatory.
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- Thomas Gehrels, "The Indiana Asteroid Program," Astronomical Journal, v. 63, No. 1256 (February 1958), p. 50.
- List of Minor Planet Discoverers
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- (19912) 1955 RE1