Image processing and WWW formatting by Eric Deutsch . We appreciate the help of Charles Corson, Mark Hammergren and Bruce Margon in obtaining these observations. Above is an animated GIF image of the movement of the asteroid during the 30 minutes of our exposures. The sky is white, and the black objects are detections of light emitted from stars in our Galaxy. The faint object near the center of the image which is seen to move right to left is a detection of sunlight reflected off the asteroid as it moves in its orbit around the sun.
Vertical streaks are defects in the image caused by bright stars.
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