Palomar-Leiden Survey
(PLS)
(1960s survey to identify distant asteroids)
The Palomar-Leiden Survey (PLS)
was a 1960s astronomical survey in search of distant
minor planets carried out at Palomar Observatory
in California and Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands.
Three subsequent surveys in the 1970s
(Palomar-Leiden Trojan surveys 1, 2, and 3: T-1, T-2, and T-3)
specifically searched for Trojan asteroids.
Over 4000 minor planets were discovered.
(survey,asteroids)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palomar-Leiden_survey
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1971NASSP.267..183V/abstract
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