Spacewatch

Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets. The project leader is Dr. Robert S. McMillan. Spacewatch discovered a moon of Jupiter, now named Callirrhoe, which was originally mistaken for an asteroid. Other notable discoveries include 5145 Pholus, 9965 GNU, 9885 Linux, 20000 Varuna, 60558 Echeclus, 1998 KY26, (35396) 1997 XF11, (48639) 1995 TL... more

Spacewatch is a project at the University of Arizona that specializes in the study of minor planets, including various types of asteroids and comets. The project leader is Dr. Robert S. McMillan. Spacewatch discovered a moon of Jupiter, now named Callirrhoe, which was originally mistaken for an asteroid. Other notable discoveries include 5145 Pholus, 9965 GNU, 9885 Linux, 20000 Varuna, 60558 Echeclus, 1998 KY26, (35396) 1997 XF11, (48639) 1995 TL8, and 1994 CC. The project also recovered 719 Albert (a long-lost asteroid), and found the periodic comet 125P/Spacewatch. This project is at the origin of the discovery of the most distant body of the solar system: the comet C/1992 J1. less