File:Quaoar discovery animation.gif
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| DescriptionQuaoar discovery animation.gif |
English: Animation of three images taken 90 minutes apart, showing the slow movement of Quaoar (as indicated by the white arrow). These images were taken with the 48-inch Samuel Oschin telescope at the Palomar Observatory on 4 June 2002. At that time, Quaoar was located in the constellation of Ophiuchus, at celestial coordinates RA 16 38 20.71 and Dec -14 51 18.2. |
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| Source | Original image published in Chad Trujillo's website on Frequently Asked Questions about Quaoar - http://www.physics.nau.edu/~trujillo/quaoar |
| Author | Chad A. Trujillo and Michael E. Brown |
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| current | 08:15, 5 January 2020 | 580 × 597 (695 KB) | wikimediacommons>Nrco0e | User created page with UploadWizard |
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