Palomar’s Oschin Telescope recently underwent
an astronomical changing of the guard. On April
16, JPL’s Near Earth Asteroid Tracking camera
was removed from the 1.2-meter (48-inch)
telescope located near San Diego.
It will be
replaced by Yale University’s Quest camera.
Since its installation in 2001, JPL’s asteroid
tracking camera discovered 189 near-Earth
asteroids, 19 comets and 14 ‘Centaurs’ (minor
planets orbiting between Jupiter and Neptune).
