Palomar Observatory
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When the object was first identified in 2018, spectra obtained with the 200-inch Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory showed no special features.
From Science Daily • Nov. 7, 2025
Janus was spotted using the Zwicky Transient Facility at Caltech's Palomar Observatory near San Diego, with subsequent observations made by other ground-based telescopes.
From Reuters • Jul. 21, 2023
The initial discovery was made by analyzing data collected by the Zwicky Transient Facility, run at the California Institute of Technology's Palomar Observatory.
From Scientific American • May 3, 2023
It was first discovered in March 2022 by astronomers using the wide-field survey camera at the Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory in California.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 9, 2023
They spent one week each month at the Palomar Observatory in California looking for objects, asteroids primarily, whose trajectories carried them across Earth’s orbit.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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