Deep Ecliptic Survey


19521 Chaos19 November 1998
28978 Ixion22 May 2001
38083 Rhadamanthus17 April 1999
21 October 2001
53311 Deucalion18 April 1999
54598 Bienor27 August 2000
88611 Teharonhiawako20 August 2001
148780 Altjira20 October 2001
24 November 2003

The Deep Ecliptic Survey is a project to find Kuiper belt objects, using the facilities of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory. The principal investigator is Robert L. Millis.
Since 1998 through the end of 2003, the survey covered 550 square degrees with sensitivity of 22.5, which means an estimated 50% of objects of this magnitude have been found.
The survey has also established the mean Kuiper Belt plane and introduced new formal definitions of the dynamical classes of Kuiper belt objects.
The remarkable first observations and/or discoveries include: