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The IRAS fast-moving object search

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The Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS) has provided an all-sky survey at wavelengths between 12 and 100 µm. The satellite also detected fast-moving objects in the Solar System, including new comets and Earth-crossing asteroids, one of which may be an extinct cometary nucleus.

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  1. Astronomical Department, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK

    J. K. Davies, S. F. Green & A. J. Meadows

  2. IRAS Project, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 OAX, UK

    B. C. Stewart

  3. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125, USA

    H. H. Aumann

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Davies, J., Green, S., Stewart, B. et al. The IRAS fast-moving object search. Nature 309, 315–319 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/309315a0

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