Encyclopedia of the Solar System 2nd ed

720 Encyclopedia of the Solar System of the first Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) was made in 1992 on the University of Hawaii 2.2-m te ...

New Generation Ground-Based Optical/Infrared Telescopes 721 FIGURE 2 Images of known comets in the asteroid main belt taken with ...

722 Encyclopedia of the Solar System 2. Advances in the Construction of Large Telescopes and in Image Quality The Hale 5.1-m tel ...

TABLE 1 Telescopes with Apertures Greater than 5 Meters (2) (8) Circular (5) (6) Mirror (9) (1) Aperture (3) (4) Date of primary ...

724 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 5 Schematic of different telescope mounts: (a) equatorial, (b) alt-az, (c) azimuth-o ...

New Generation Ground-Based Optical/Infrared Telescopes 725 FIGURE6b 8-m Gemini South telescope. Instruments are mounted on the ...

726 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 7 Schematic of an active optics system. Starlight from the telescope is sent to a be ...

New Generation Ground-Based Optical/Infrared Telescopes 727 FIGURE 8 Improvement in angular resolution at optical wavelengths. T ...

728 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 9 Large CCD mosaic installed in MegaCam, a prime focus camera at the Canada-France-H ...

New Generation Ground-Based Optical/Infrared Telescopes 729 FIGURE 11 Simplified diagram of an AO system. Light from the telesco ...

730 Encyclopedia of the Solar System FIGURE 12 Images of Uranus with and without adaptive optics. This is a striking demonstrati ...

New Generation Ground-Based Optical/Infrared Telescopes 731 FIGURE 13 Image of the asteroid 87 Sylvia showing its two satellites ...

TABLE 2 Summary of Sky Survey Telescopes Survey Status Aperture (m) f/no Field-of-view (degree 2 ) Magnitude limit Speed (degree ...

New Generation Ground-Based Optical/Infrared Telescopes 733 FIGURE 16 Cumulative discoveries of near-Earth asteroids. The total ...

734 Encyclopedia of the Solar System We anticipate continuing growth in telescope and in- strument development for at least anot ...

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736 Encyclopedia of the Solar System ground-based optical telescopes. Furthermore, by virtue of the centimeter-to-meter waveleng ...

TABLE 1 Radar-Detected Planetary Targetsa Moon Mercury Venus Mars Mars satellite: Phobos Jupiter satellites: Io, Europa, Ganymed ...

TABLE 1 Radar-Detected Planetary Targetsa(Continued) 1866 Sisyphus 8201 (1994 AH2) 1991 BN 1915 Quetzalcoatl 9856 (1991 EE) 1994 ...

Planetary Radar 739 of binary systems and extremely rapid rotators among the near-Earth asteroids; detected the nongravitational ...