In astronomy, precovery (short for pre-discovery recovery) is the process of finding the image of a celestial object in images or photographic plates...

Near Earth Objects Precovery Survey, has been initiated to systematically search existing photographic plate archives for precovery images of known NEOs...

to perihelion around 2163. 2009 YE7 has been observed 70 times, with precovery images dating back to 2006, and has an orbital quality code of 4. The...

(1,900,000 km). Published by the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS), a first precovery was taken at the discovering observatory in 1974, extending the asteroid's...

Sierra Nevada Observatory in Spain, who had discovered it that year in precovery images taken by the team in 2003. From that announcement, it received...

discovery, precovery images of Varuna were found by German astronomers Andre Knofel and Reiner Stoss at the Palomar Observatory. One particular precovery image...

with respect to the ecliptic. The body's observation arc begins with a precovery taken at Palomar Observatory in April 1955, almost 44 years prior to its...

tracking—Haumea—was controversially announced on July 27 by a different team in Spain. Precovery images of Eris have been identified back to September 3, 1954. More observations...

Luhman 16 (also designated WISE 1049−5319 or WISE J104915.57−531906.1) is a binary brown-dwarf system in the southern constellation Vela at a distance...

span to confirm the satellite's orbit. The satellite has been found in precovery observations as early as 2003. Pandia is part of the Himalia group, a...

precovery observations, in which the asteroid would be detected in archival telescope images taken before its discovery. The earliest known precovery...

release and a paper detailing the discovery of 2017 OF201. Additional precovery observations of 2017 OF201 were later found in Sloan Digital Sky Survey...

claimed as the tenth planet by the press. Chiron was later found on several precovery images, going back to 1895, which allowed its orbit to be accurately determined...

Uncertainty parameter 0 Observation arc 84.90 yr (31,008 days) Earliest precovery date 3 December 1931 Aphelion 3.7257 AU Perihelion 0.6243 AU Semi-major...

53.7 AU as of 2021[update]. The body's observation arc begins with a precovery, published by the Digitized Sky Survey and taken at the Siding Spring...

of its position backwards in time for identification in precovery observations. Seven precovery observations from Digitized Sky Survey plates were identified...

years prior to its official discovery observation at Mount Lemmon, with a precovery taken at Palomar Observatory in 1951, and published by the Digitized Sky...

(NEAT) using the 1.2 meter Samuel Oschin telescope at Palomar Observatory. Precovery images of the comet were found by Maik Meyer in December 2004. There were...

characteristics Epoch 19 July 1893 (JD 2412663.5) Observation arc 15 days Earliest precovery date 20 June 1893 Number of observations 15 Perihelion 0.6744 AU Eccentricity...

Uncertainty parameter 0 Observation arc 23.06 yr (8,422 days) Earliest precovery date 15 October 1999 Aphelion 2.437 AU Perihelion 1.946 AU Semi-major...

asteroid was removed from the Sentry Risk Table in April 2014 as a result of precovery images establishing it is a harmless main belt asteroid. 2004 BX159 orbits...

0.12 and an inclination of 11° with respect to the ecliptic. A first precovery was obtained at the discovering observatory in 1969, extending the body's...

December 1973 (JD 2442040.5) Observation arc 1.24 years (453 days) Earliest precovery date 28 January 1973 Number of observations 812 Aphelion 98,000 AU (inbound)...

respect to the ecliptic. Taken at Palomar Observatory in 1955, a first precovery from the during the Digitized Sky Survey extends the body's observation...

of 0.08 and an inclination of 5° with respect to the ecliptic. A first precovery was taken at the discovering observatory in 1953, extending Meinel's observation...

Brown and Trujillo initiated a search for archival precovery images. They obtained several precovery images taken by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking survey...

characteristics Epoch 31 March 1917 (JD 2421318.5) Observation arc 38 days Earliest precovery date December 193 Number of observations 11 Orbit type Halley-type Aphelion...

2004, Apophis passed 0.0964 AU (14.42 Gm; 8.96 million mi) from Earth. Precovery observations from March 15, 2004, were identified on December 27, and...

0987 AU (14,800,000 km), which corresponds to 38.5 lunar distances. A first precovery was taken at the discovering observatory in 1954, extending the body's...

radiation pressure from the Sun then stretched the dust into streams. Precovery images from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey from 2005 were found, showing...