March 18, 2010 at 6:12pm
Seven new main belters have been discovered in a course of A79 observations. Initially we tried to confirm short arc on-line observations provided by our colleague K. Dankov, but found also the asteroids 2010 EZ20 and 2010 EC44 on 06 and 13 March, respectively. During the confirmation process we were able to detect much brighter bodies 2010 EK29 and 2010 EL29 as well as 2010 EP43. The area close to the opposition point was regularly scanned too and in this way we were able to discover 2010 ET20. The latter is a member of the inner part of the main belt when most of the other newly detected objects are members of the outer zone. More about the orbital elements you can find on the results page.
We detected also the cometary nature of the NEOCP object J04F76, however due to the internet connection problem we were not able to report this finding to CBAT on time.
