Discovery of the asteroids 2009 UL18 and 2009 UN18

Date Arrow  October 25, 2009 at 9:18pm  

Two new MB asteroids have been discovered in the course of A79 observations on 21/10/2009.  The bodies were designed by MPC as 2009 UL18 and 2009 UN18. According to current orbital elements 2009 UL18 is a member of the Central zone of the Main Belt when 2009 UN18 of the Inner zone. New observations of the recently discovered asteroid 2009 TY were performed too and the orbital elements were improved.  Many other asteroids observed in only two nights have been confirmed during the observations and based on these data MPC calculated their orbital elements.
We continued to observe remotely our newly discovered asteroids in August and extended the orbits arc to more than two months for the bodies, which were not still linked with older observations. This will allow us to identify these asteroids on the NEAT archive images soon.

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