Piszkéstető Station
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The Piszkéstető Station or Piszkéstető Mountain Station is an astronomical observatory in Mátraszentimre in Mátra Mountains, about Script error: No such module "convert". northeast of Hungary's capital Budapest. It is a station of Konkoly Observatory, first built in 1958. It has the observatory code 461 and 561 for being used by the Szeged University and Konkoly Observatory, respectively.[1]
Instruments
The observatory currently features four telescopes:[2]
- 60/90/180-centimetre Schmidt telescope since 1962
- 80-centimetre Ritchey-Chrétien telescope since 2019 (which replaced the 50-centimetre Cassegrain telescope that has been in its place since 1966)
- 1-metre Ritchey–Chrétien telescope since 1974
- 40-centimetre Ritchey–Chrétien telescope since 2010
Discovery of Impactors
Piszkéstető Station discovered 3 of the first 8 impactors which were observed and confirmed while still in orbit: Template:Mpl, 2023 CX1, and 2024 BX1.
The asteroid 2022EB was only the fifth asteroid in history to have been discovered prior to impact. This puts the station in a very short list of observatories that have achieved this feat. Several asteroids impact earth every year with enough force to be detected by infrasound sensors designed to detect detonation of nuclear devices, but the vast majority of impacts are unpredicted and occur without warning.[3] Piszkéstető Station discovered this asteroid before it impacted.[4]
2023 CX1 was discovered at the station on February 12, 2023 and impacted the Earth off the coast of Normandy, France.
2024 BX1 was discovered at the station a few hours before it entered the Earth's atmosphere near Berlin on January 21, 2024.[5]
Honors
The minor planet 37432 Piszkéstető was named after the station, where it was discovered by astronomers Krisztián Sárneczky and Zsuzsanna Heiner in January 2002.[1]
List of discovered minor planets
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A total of 19 minor planet discoveries are credited directly to the Piszkéstető Station by the Minor Planet Center.[6]
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Gallery
See also
- List of asteroid-discovering observatories
- List of astronomical observatories
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- List of observatory codes
References
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