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The Palomar-Leiden Survey
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2016
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The Palomar-Leiden survey (PLS) was set up as an extension to fainter magnitudes of the McDonald survey. The latter is, therefore, the more important survey as far as asteroid statistics are concerned. The main result of the PLS is that no clearcut differences exist between the fainter asteroids found in this survey and the numbered asteroids in the distribution functions of eccentricity, inclination, and semimajor axis and that the statistical relations found in the McDonald survey have a continuous extension in the PLS material. I would, therefore, propose not to summarize the results of the PLS, which would appear to be a tedious job, but to give here some new results that should properly have been included in the publication, but, for reasons of pressures to publish as soon as possible, were not.
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- Part I-Observations
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- International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 12: Physical Studies of Minor Planets , 1971 , pp. 183 - 186
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- Copyright © NASA 1971
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