Indiana Asteroid Program

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The Indiana Asteroid Program was a program of photographic asteroid observations made with a 10-inch f/6.5 Cooke triplet astrographic camera at Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana. The program was initiated by Frank K. Edmondson of Indiana University in 1949 and continued until 1967. It had four objectives:

• recovering asteroids that were far from their predicted positions;
• making new orbital calculations or revising old ones;
• deriving magnitudes accurate to about 0.1 mag; and
• training students.

By 1958, the program had produced 3,500 photographic plates showing 12,000 asteroid images and had published about 2,000 accurate positions in the Minor Planet Circular. When the program ended, it had discovered a total of 119 asteroids. The program's photographic plates are now archived at Lowell Observatory.

Contents 1 Asteroids discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program 1.1 Named asteroids (117) 1.2 Unnamed asteroids (2) 2 Sources

[edit] Asteroids discovered by the Indiana Asteroid Program

[edit] Named asteroids (117)

1575 Winifred 1578 Kirkwood 1602 Indiana 1615 Bardwell 1721 Wells 1728 Goethe Link 1729 Beryl 1741 Giclas 1746 Brouwer 1751 Herget 1761 Edmondson 1762 Russell 1763 Williams 1764 Cogshall 1765 Wrubel 1766 Slipher 1767 Lampland 1788 Kiess 1798 Watts 1799 Koussevitzky 1822 Waterman 1824 Haworth 1826 Miller 1827 Atkinson 1852 Carpenter 1853 McElroy 1952 Hesburgh 1953 Rupertwildt 1955 McMath

1971 Hagihara 1988 Delores 1994 Shane 1996 Adams 1997 Leverrier 2007 McCuskey 2023 Asaph 2024 McLaughlin 2026 Cottrell 2059 Baboquivari 2065 Spicer 2069 Hubble 2070 Humason 2086 Newell 2110 Moore-Sitterly 2160 Spitzer 2161 Grissom 2165 Young 2168 Swope 2182 Semirot 2196 Ellicott 2227 Otto Struve 2300 Stebbins 2301 Whitford 2322 Kitt Peak 2326 Tololo 2334 Cuffey 2351 O'Higgins 2405 Welch

2417 McVittee 2466 Golson 2488 Bryan 2496 Fernandus 2516 Roman 2528 Mohler 2624 Samitchell 2641 Lipschutz 2653 Principia 2751 Campbell 2753 Duncan 2775 Odishaw 2842 Unsold 2848 ASP 2853 Harvill 2974 Holden 2996 Bowman 3070 Aitken 3145 Walter Adams 3167 Babcock 3180 Morgan 3185 Clintford 3282 Spencer Jones 3363 Bowen 3371 Giacconi 3428 Roberts 3433 Fehrenbach 3447 Burckhalter 3474 Linsley

3520 Klopsteg 3572 Leogoldberg 3654 AAS 3717 Thorenia 3382 Johncox 3959 Irwin 3961 Arthurcox 4045 Lowengrub 4046 Swain 4048 Samwestfall 4299 WIYN 4300 Marg Edmondson 4388 Jurgenstock 4423 Golden 4463 Marschwarzschild 4911 Rosenzweig 4912 Emilhaury 5074 Goetzoertel 5336 Honeycutt 5567 Durisen 5568 Mufson 7001 Noether 7368 Haldancohn 7723 Lugger 8059 Deliyannis 8320 van Zee 9143 Burkhead 9144 Hollisjohnson 9260 Edwardolson 9261 Peggythomson

[edit] Unnamed asteroids (2)

• (30718) 1955 RB₁
• (19912) 1955 RE₁

[edit] Sources

• Thomas Gehrels, "The Indiana Asteroid Program," Astronomical Journal, v. 63, No. 1256 (February 1958), p. 50.
• List of Minor Planet Discoverers
• Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets