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The Big Five

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Mike Brown could not believe his ears. Was the renowned Schmidt Telescope at the Mount Palomar Observatory really going to be mothballed? Surely it was working just fine?

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Schilling, G. (2009). The Big Five. In: The Hunt for Planet X. Copernicus, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77805-1_21

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