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Observations of minor planets by Hipparcos

Hestroffer, D.; Morando, B.

The main goal of Hipparcos is to build a catalogue of stars but 48 minor planets are bright enough and sufficiently pointlike to be observed also. This paper describes some aspects of the minor planets astrometric data reduction procedure. Comparison to the calculated places is given as well as a first attempt to minor planets orbital elements cor…