Patientia articles
Deeper dives into Patientia, sourced from NASA, JPL and the scientific literature.
Auguste Charlois: 99 asteroids from Nice
The French astronomer who found Patientia straddled the switch from visual to photographic asteroid hunting.
Read →Reading Patientia’s light curve
What 34 years of brightness measurements reveal about a large, quiet asteroid.
Read →Spotting Patientia with a small telescope
A practical guide to finding a 10th-magnitude asteroid — and proving that you found it.
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