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Occultations KB Objects
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The Taiwan American Occultation Survey (TAOS) aims to detect small (~1 km diameter) objects in the Kuiper Belt and beyond. More than 1,000 small bodies with diameters larger than 100 km have been detected beyond Neptune over the past decade using large telescopes. Pluto and its satellite Charon are two of the largest members of this family. The goal of the TAOS project is to measure directly the n...(more)

 

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