• 39382 Opportunity (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden survey)
    approximately 7.5 kilometers in diameter. Discovered during the Palomar–Leiden survey at Palomar Observatory in 1960, it was named for NASA's Opportunity Mars...
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  • 37452 Spirit (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden survey)
    Cornelis van Houten at Leiden, on photographic plates taken by Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory, California. It was named after NASA's Spirit Mars rover. Spirit...
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  • January 1983, by American astronomers Randolph Kirk and Donald Rudy at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The asteroid was named after...
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  • 1810 Epimetheus (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden survey)
    Houten, and Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels during the Palomar–Leiden survey at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. It was later named...
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  • 2436 Hatshepsut (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden survey)
    "P-L" stands for Palomar–Leiden, named after Palomar Observatory and Leiden Observatory, which collaborated on the fruitful Palomar–Leiden survey in the...
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  • 4065 Meinel (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden survey)
    photographic plates taken by Dutch–American astronomer Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory, California. The asteroid was named for American astronomer...
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  • Eugene Shoemaker and Canadian astronomer David Levy at the Palomar Observatory on Mount Palomar, California. It is a member of the Aten asteroid, a subgroup...
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    Planet Names, Google books Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets...
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  • July 2001, by astronomers of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The asteroid was named for Indo-American...
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  • photometric observations by David Polishook and others at the Californian Palomar Transient Factory gave a divergent period of 10 hours with an amplitude...
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    was discovered on 6 March 1973 by American astronomer Charles Kowal at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. It was named after King Midas...
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    brightness variation of 0.35 magnitude (U=3). Another lightcurve from the Palomar Transient Factory in November 2010 gave a similar period of 8.790 hours...
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  • October 1982, by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Eugene Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The asteroid was later named...
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  • 2934 Aristophanes (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden survey)
    Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory, California, United States. The survey designation P-L stands for "Palomar–Leiden", named after Palomar Observatory and...
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    9999 Wiles (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden Trojan-2 survey)
    at Leiden and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory, California, United States. The body's observation arc begins at Palomar, 10 days prior to its official...
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  • was discovered on 2 August 1986, by American astronomer Eleanor Helin at Palomar Observatory in California, United States. It is named after the Hindu deity...
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    body's observation arc begins four weeks later with a precovery taken at Palomar Observatory, 27 years prior to its official discovery observation at Klet...
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    1–2 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered in 1992, by astronomers at Palomar Observatory and later named after Louis Braille, the inventor of the writing...
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    2014. Retrieved 12 March 2014. "Observatoire de Paris (Abd-al-Rahman Al Sufi)". Retrieved 2007-04-19. "Observatoire de Paris (LMC)". Retrieved 2007-04-19...
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  • lightcurve of Tanya was obtained from photometric observations at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. Lightcurve analysis gave a rotation period...
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    was observed at the next predicted apparition by Gérard Sause at the Observatoire de Haute Provence, France on 6 August 1976 with a brightness of magnitude...
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  • Llica d'Amunt K10 Micro Palomar - Micro Palomar, Reilhanette K11 Pommier Observatory (Observatoire de Pommier) - Observatoire de Pommier K12 Marratxi...
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  • Planet Names, Google books Asteroids and comets rotation curves, CdR – Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets...
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  • McDonald Observatory in Texas. One month later, it was also observed at the Palomar Observatory in May 1952. Its observation arc begins by 23 years prior to...
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    9912 Donizetti (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden Trojan-3 survey)
    belt, approximately 7 km in diameter. It was discovered during the third Palomar–Leiden Trojan survey in 1977, and named after Italian composer Gaetano...
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    Ovidiu Vaduvescu and Mirel Birlan (former Romanian astronomers) at IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, France. Hahn, Gerhard (6 February 2015). "O.D.A.S. Home Page"...
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  • was discovered on 27 August 1976, by American astronomer Schelte Bus at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California. Ron Helin is a member of the...
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  • obtained for this asteroid from photometric observations at the Californian Palomar Transient Factory in September 2013. It gave a rotation period of 1234...
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    1951, by astronomers Albert George Wilson and Rudolph Minkowski at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States. The asteroid was named in honor...
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    9910 Vogelweide (category Discoveries by the Palomar–Leiden Trojan-2 survey)
    approximately 5 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered during the second Palomar–Leiden trojan survey in 1973, and named after German medieval poet Walther...
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