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The DANEOPS Project (659 words) |
 | The DANEOPS project has been initiated to systematically search existing photographic plate archives for precovery images of known NEOs. |
| It is organized as a cooperation between Gerhard Hahn, DLR Institute of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration and Andreas Doppler and Arno Gnädig, from an amateur working group at the Archenhold Observatory. |
| Since November 1999 Matthias Busch and Reiner Stoss from the amateur group at the Starkenburg Observatory are participating with recovery observations. |
| MPEC 2001-P28: 2001 KX76 (175 words) |
| Trail located and measured by DANEOPS (A. Gnadig). |
| Three stacked images located and measured by DANEOPS (A. Gnadig). |
| First and last observations above in comparison with prediction: Residuals in seconds of arc (or two decimals in degrees) and reference 820717 260 0.47- 0.22+ 000703 809 38.3- 9.2+ MPO 15103 Orbital elements: 2001 KX76 Epoch 2001 Oct. 18.0 TT = JDT 2452200.5 Marsden M 258.78520 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00400156 Peri. |
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