Talk:Precovery

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I would like to know a bit more about how this is done in practice. Say I have just discovered a new object, and have 2 or 3 observations a week apart. I have a slight idea of the orbit. How do I access all of the data that s available? Is there a central server doing this? I enter the estimated orbit, and the server just figures out which pictures it has that should contain my object? Where do astronomers access that data? Just curious... Paul Dehaye 03:25, 2 August 2005 (UTC)

pre- recovery or pre- discovery? Pre-discovery makes mores sense to me, as it implies searching for images of an object of where it should be before it was discovered. Is there a standard origin definition?

Piotr (Venezuela) 06:00, 17 August 2006 (UTC)