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Reports from Geisei Observatory <February 15, 2011>


Observations made with the 60cm reflector and not previously reported (1)

    The following are the observations made with Geisei's 60cm reflector. (This telescope is now decommissioned.) These have not been reported previously. I have found the images of these objects while recently checking the old films. Most of them seem to be known minor planets.
    SL586 is identified as 110P/Hartley 3 and SL587 as 24P/Schaumasse by Mr. Hirohisa Sato. SL584 and SL585 are identified to be numbered minor planets (6735)Fursenko and (1996)Adams respectively. SL is the prefix used for the objects discovered by Geisei Observatory. There are also 1000 objects discovered by Geisei with the prefix SK. Some of these minor planets looked like comets and some were later found to be binary minor planets. There was only one peculiar asteroid. It is still possible that new objects are discovered in the old images.
    Mr. Sato continues his work to identify the found objects and the results will be presented here in the future.
    SL579     2001 11 14.60903 04 03 22.66 +06 10 09.1          17.0 V      372
    SL579     2001 11 14.61979 04 03 21.87 +06 10 11.2                      372

    SL580     2001 11 14.78299 09 40 21.21 +21 56 01.1          16.5 V      372
    SL580     2001 11 14.79306 09 40 21.83 +21 56 00.5                      372

    SL581     2001 11 22.75799 10 51 55.02 +21 47 22.9          13.9 V      372
    SL581     2001 11 22.76840 10 51 55.46 +21 47 20.4                      372

    SL582     2001 12 11.43507 04 06 01.44 +16 39 16.8          15.0 V      372
    SL582     2001 12 11.45694 04 06 00.40 +16 39 01.5                      372

    SL583     2000 12 06.78576 11 39 06.08 +17 23 24.1          15.5 V      372
    SL583     2000 12 06.79444 11 39 06.55 +17 23 23.0                      372

    SL584     2007 03 25.67569 13 35 55.71 -15 28 32.4          16.5 V      372
    SL584     2007 03 25.68507 13 35 55.43 -15 28 31.9                      372

    SL585     2002 09 03.66563 02 51 08.06 +24 37 44.4          15.5 V      372
    SL585     2002 09 03.67847 02 51 08.19 +24 37 52.3                      372

    SL586     2000 12 04.64479 03 46 50.22 +32 49 48.1          15.3 T      372
    SL586     2000 12 04.65556 03 46 49.67 +32 49 43.5          15.4 T      372

    SL587     2001 04 13.47222 05 01 59.76 +28 49 39.4          13.8 T      372

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