Eyeball search of Hubble data reveals about 100 new asteroids

Astronomers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have discovered roughly 100 previously unknown asteroids by searching two years worth of data from the Hubble Space Telescope by eye. Over three years the researchers have examined more than 28,000 Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC-2) images...

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