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Asteroid Trails in Hubble Space TelescopeWFPC2 Images: First Results

Ballester, Gilda E.; Grillmair, Carl; Crisp, David +21 more

Careful examination of 28,460 selected Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) long exposures from 1994, 1995, and early 1996 has revealed trails of 96 distinct moving objects. They have been reported to the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) Minor Planet Center for their asteroid database and a few have been identified with known asteroid…