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European Astronomers Spot Faint Asteroid

Asteroid 2014 KC46 was rediscovered on 28 and 30 October 2014 by a new collaboration between the Italian Large Binocular Telescope team and ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre.
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EU–(ENEWSPF)–4 December 2014.  European experts have spotted one of the faintest asteroids ever found – a chunk of space rock thought to be about 100 m in diameter beyond the orbit of Mars. 

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Astronomers at the Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona, USA, spotted 2014 KC46 on the nights of 28 and 30 October. The difficult observations, close to the limits of the telescope, were carried out through a new collaboration between the Italian telescope…

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