Asteroids
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey spends most of its time looking at galaxies and
quasars very far from Earth. However, SDSS also sees many things in our own
cosmic backyard. In addition to
the occasional comet or meteor, Data Release 5 contains 200,000
asteroids! In this lesson you will learn what asteroids are, and how to find them
in SDSS images.
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A meteor streaks across the sky
in this SDSS image
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