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...

objects from the Sun as of December 2021[update]. It has been identified in precovery images from 6 January 2016. "MPEC 2021-Y19 : 2019 EU15". Minor Planet...

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...

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

camera the original reported coordinates were off by about two degrees. Precovery images obtained on 26 March by the Xingming Observatory were spotted by...

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

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...

of 0.19 and an inclination of 4° with respect to the ecliptic. A first precovery was taken at the discovering observatory in February 1981, extending the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

Observatory (304). Two precovery measurements from 22 October 2011 have been reported. A primary issue with observing it and finding precovery observations of...

observation arc of 41 days with an uncertainty parameter of 7. Due to precovery images from 2007 it now has an observation arc of more than 5 years. It...

magnitude of 3.7, and has been observed 178 times over 16 oppositions with precovery images back to August 1982. Stellar occultation events indicate that Gǃkúnǁʼhòmdímà...

Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, Coonabarabran, Australia. A 1983 precovery (1983 UH) is credited to Giovanni de Sanctis and Richard M. West of the...

Observation arc 7.17 yr (2,618 days) (using 19 observations) Earliest precovery date 2011-08-31 Aphelion 1630 AU (barycentric) 1632±14 AU 1700±60 AU Perihelion...

pre-discovery close approaches are only included if the object was found by precovery. From the annual lists summarized in the preceding section, these are...

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...

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...