The Uppsala–ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets (UESAC) took place in 1992–1993. A large number of

asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet—an object larger than a meteoroid that is neither a planet nor an identified comet—that orbits within the Solar System#Inner Solar System, inner Solar System or is co-orbital with Jupiter (Trojan asteroids). As ...

s were investigated. Over 15,000 positions were detected, and

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s were calculated for 2500. The observations were taken at

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site in Chile, with a total of 74 obtained

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s, and at the

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(Siding Spring Observatory) in Australia. Details were published in 1996.

List of discovered minor planets

The

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credits UESAC with the discovery of 1123 numbered minor planets. The discoveries range from the lowest numbered discovery, 6102 Visby, to the currently highest numbered body, . The given total also including and , which were separately credited to "Comets UESAC", while all other discoveries were credited to "UESAC". More minor planets may yet to be numbered and added to this list as their orbits are confirmed.

References

{{reflist , refs= {{cite web , title = Minor Planet Discoverers (by number) , work = Minor Planet Center , url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html , date = 4 September 2016 , access-date = 8 September 2016 {{cite web , title = 376537 (2012 TW9) , work = Minor Planet Center , url = http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=376537 , access-date = 8 September 2016 {{cite web , title = The Uppsala-ESO Survey of Asteroids and Comets (UESAC) , author1=Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist , author2=Mats Lindgren , author3=Olof Hernius , author4=Gonzalo Tancredi , website = Uppsala University – Department of Physics and Astronomy , url = http://www.astro.uu.se/~classe/projects/uesac_eng.html , access-date = 8 September 2016 {{Cite journal , first1 = O. , last1 = Hernius , first2 = C.-I. , last2 = Lagerkvist , first3 = M. , last3 = Lindgren , first4 = G. , last4 = Tancredi , first5 = G. V. , last5 = Williams , date = February 1997 , title = UESAC - The Uppsala-ESO survey of asteroids and comets. , journal = Astronomy and Astrophysics , volume = 318 , pages = 631–638 , bibcode = 1997A&A...318..631H , citeseerx = 10.1.1.388.6522

External links

UESAC – The Uppsala-ESO survey of asteroids and comets
''Astronomy Astrophysics 318, 631–638'' (1997) Asteroid surveys *

List of discovered minor planets

See also

References

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