Mount Lemmon Survey

Mount Lemmon Survey
Alternative namesMLS
Coordinates32°26′31″N 110°47′20″W / 32.442°N 110.789°W / 32.442; -110.789 Edit this at Wikidata
Observatory codeG96
Websitewww.lpl.arizona.edu/css/css_facilities.html
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Minor planets discovered: 50,178 [1]
see List of minor planets § Main index

Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS) is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96.[2] MLS uses a 1.52 m (60 in) cassegrain reflector telescope (with 10560x10560-pixel camera at the f/1.6 prime focus, for a five square degree field of view)[3] operated by the Steward Observatory at Mount Lemmon Observatory, which is located at 2,791 meters (9,157 ft) in the Santa Catalina Mountains northeast of Tucson, Arizona.

It is currently one of the most prolific surveys worldwide, especially for discovering near-Earth objects. MLS ranks among the top discoverers on the Minor Planet Center's discovery chart with a total of more than 50,000 numbered minor planets.[1][4]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference MPC-Discoverers was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "List Of Observatory Codes". Minor Planet Center. Retrieved 2 September 2015.
  3. ^ "CSS Telescopes". Retrieved 9 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Catalina Sky Survey Facilities – The Mt. Lemmon Survey (MLS)". University of Arizona. Retrieved 2 September 2015.