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The Indiana Asteroid Program was a photographic astronomical survey of asteroids during 1949–1967, at the U.S. Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana.[2] The program was initiated by Frank K. Edmondson of Indiana University using a 10-inch f/6.5 Cooke triplet astrographic camera.[3][4]
Its objectives included 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.[3]
When the observatory's 36-inch (0.91-meter) reflecting telescope proved unsuitable for searching for asteroids, postdoctoral fellow James Cuffey arranged the permanent loan of a 10-inch (25-centimeter) lens from the University of Cincinnati.[5] Mounted in a shed near the main observatory, the instrument using the borrowed lens was responsible for all of the program's discoveries.[6]
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.[3] When the program ended in 1967, it had discovered a total of 119 asteroids.[1] The program's highest numbered discovery, 30718 Records, made in 1955, was not named until November 2007 (M.P.C. 61269).[7][8]
The program ended when the lights of the nearby city of Indianapolis became too bright to permit the long exposures required for the photographic plates.[9] The program's nearly 7,000 photographic plates are now archived at Lowell Observatory.[10]
See also: Category:Discoveries by Indiana University (Indiana Asteroid Program) |
The Indiana Asteroid Program has discovered 119 asteroids during 1949–1966. The Minor Planet Center officially credits these discoveries to "Indiana University" rather than to the program itself.[1]
1575 Winifred | 20 April 1950 |
1578 Kirkwood | 10 January 1951 |
1602 Indiana | 14 March 1950 |
1615 Bardwell | 28 January 1950 |
1721 Wells | 3 October 1953 |
1728 Goethe Link | 12 October 1964 |
1729 Beryl | 19 September 1963 |
1741 Giclas | 26 January 1960 |
1746 Brouwer | 14 September 1963 |
1751 Herget | 27 July 1955 |
1761 Edmondson | 30 March 1952 |
1762 Russell | 8 October 1953 |
1763 Williams | 13 October 1953 |
1764 Cogshall | 7 November 1953 |
1765 Wrubel | 15 December 1957 |
1766 Slipher | 7 September 1962 |
1767 Lampland | 7 September 1962 |
1788 Kiess | 25 July 1952 |
1798 Watts | 4 April 1949 |
1799 Koussevitzky | 25 July 1950 |
1822 Waterman | 25 July 1950 |
1824 Haworth | 30 March 1952 |
1826 Miller | 14 September 1955 |
1827 Atkinson | 7 September 1962 |
1852 Carpenter | 1 April 1955 |
1853 McElroy | 15 December 1957 |
1952 Hesburgh | 3 May 1951 |
1953 Rupertwildt | 29 October 1951 |
1955 McMath | 22 September 1963 |
1971 Hagihara | 14 September 1955 |
1988 Delores | 28 September 1952 |
1994 Shane | 4 October 1961 |
1996 Adams | 16 October 1961 |
1997 Leverrier | 14 September 1963 |
2007 McCuskey | 22 September 1963 |
2023 Asaph | 16 September 1952 |
2024 McLaughlin | 23 October 1952 |
2026 Cottrell | 30 March 1955 |
2059 Baboquivari | 16 October 1963 |
2065 Spicer | 9 September 1959 |
2069 Hubble | 29 March 1955 |
2070 Humason | 14 October 1964 |
2086 Newell | 20 January 1966 |
2110 Moore-Sitterly | 7 September 1962 |
2160 Spitzer | 7 September 1956 |
2161 Grissom | 17 October 1963 |
2165 Young | 7 September 1956 |
2168 Swope | 14 September 1955 |
2182 Semirot | 21 March 1953 |
2196 Ellicott | 29 January 1965 |
2227 Otto Struve | 13 September 1955 |
2300 Stebbins | 10 October 1953 |
2301 Whitford | 20 November 1965 |
2322 Kitt Peak | 28 October 1954 |
2326 Tololo | 29 August 1965 |
2334 Cuffey | 27 April 1962 |
2351 O'Higgins | 3 November 1964 |
2405 Welch | 18 October 1963 |
2417 McVittie | 15 February 1964 |
2466 Golson | 7 September 1959 |
2488 Bryan | 23 October 1952 |
2496 Fernandus | 8 October 1953 |
2516 Roman | 6 November 1964 |
2528 Mohler | 8 October 1953 |
2624 Samitchell | 7 September 1962 |
2641 Lipschutz | 4 April 1949 |
2653 Principia | 4 November 1964 |
2751 Campbell | 7 September 1962 |
2753 Duncan | 18 February 1966 |
2775 Odishaw | 14 October 1953 |
2842 Unsold | 25 July 1950 |
2848 ASP | 8 November 1959 |
2853 Harvill | 14 September 1963 |
2974 Holden | 23 August 1955 |
2996 Bowman | 5 September 1954 |
3070 Aitken | 4 April 1949 |
3145 Walter Adams | 14 September 1955 |
3167 Babcock | 13 September 1955 |
3180 Morgan | 7 September 1962 |
3185 Clintford | 11 November 1953 |
3282 Spencer Jones | 19 February 1949 |
3363 Bowen | 6 March 1960 |
3371 Giacconi | 14 September 1955 |
3428 Roberts | 1 May 1952 |
3433 Fehrenbach | 15 October 1963 |
3447 Burckhalter | 29 September 1956 |
3474 Linsley | 27 April 1962 |
3520 Klopsteg | 16 September 1952 |
3572 Leogoldberg | 28 October 1954 |
3654 AAS | 21 August 1949 |
3717 Thorenia | 15 February 1964 |
3882 Johncox | 7 September 1962 |
3959 Irwin | 28 October 1954 |
3961 Arthurcox | 31 July 1962 |
4045 Lowengrub | 9 September 1953 |
4046 Swain | 7 October 1953 |
4048 Samwestfall | 30 October 1964 |
4299 WIYN | 28 August 1952 |
4300 Marg Edmondson | 18 September 1955 |
4388 Jurgenstock | 3 November 1964 |
4423 Golden | 4 April 1949 |
4463 Marschwarzschild | 28 October 1954 |
4911 Rosenzweig | 16 October 1953 |
4912 Emilhaury | 11 November 1953 |
5074 Goetzoertel | 24 August 1949 |
5536 Honeycutt | 23 August 1955 |
5567 Durisen | 21 March 1953 |
5568 Mufson | 14 October 1953 |
7001 Noether | 14 March 1955 |
7368 Haldancohn | 20 January 1966 |
7723 Lugger | 28 August 1952 |
8059 Deliyannis | 6 May 1957 |
8320 van Zee | 13 September 1955 |
9143 Burkhead | 16 September 1955 |
9144 Hollisjohnson | 25 October 1955 |
9260 Edwardolson | 8 October 1953 |
9261 Peggythomson | 8 October 1953 |
19912 Aurapenenta | 14 September 1955 |
30718 Records | 14 September 1955 |
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http://newsinfo.iu.edu/pub/libs/images/usr/4718.jpg Professor Frank Edmondson manipulates the 10-inch lens telescope at the Goethe Link Observatory in Brooklyn, Indiana, in the 1950s. Source: Indiana University News Bureau. | |
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/pub/libs/images/usr/4719.jpg Professor Frank Edmondson looks on as Esther Barnhart -- wife of Philip Barnhart (M.A. Astronomy 1955) -- takes precise measurements of an asteroid's location. By comparing locations of an asteroid on different plates taken an hour apart, its orbit could be calculated. Source: Indiana University News Bureau. |