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Date: Apr 29 19:26 2009

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Mick was practising his search techniques when he captured an image of an unidentified faint object. After checking the major astronomical data-bases, it became clear that the Zadko Telescope had imaged a new asteroid. Unlikely comets, asteroids are numbered not named. So instead of a Mick Todd asteroid, it will be known as asteroid 2009 FH19. Located about 125-400 million km from Earth, the asteroid has an apparent magnitude (brightness) of about 19.5, making it about 250,000 times fainter than the faintest stars visible to the naked eye. Read more __________________

Blobrana

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Date: Apr 29 14:33 2009

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The University of Western Australias new Zadko telescope has discovered a new asteroid - a 4km wide rock orbiting in the outer reaches of our solar system. Curtin University Honours student, Mick Todd, used the UWA facility to make the unexpected discovery while searching the sky for potentially hazardous asteroids. Read more __________________

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