Press Information Sheets

This page contains links to the various press information sheets giving popular-level information on subjects covered in various scientific circulars. The IAU is not responsible for these Press Information Sheets.

• New Outer Satellite of Jupiter Discovered (Added 2000 July 21)
• Long-Lost Asteroid Found (Added 2000 May 10)
  • The last "lost" numbered asteroid, (719) Albert, has been reobserved!
• 200 Transneptunian Objects (Added 1999 Nov. 18)
• 200 Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (Added 1999 Nov. 11)
• Two Bright(ish) Comets in 2000? (Added 1999 Oct. 19)
• The earliest observation of a Trojan: a historical curiosity (Added 1999 Oct. 1)
• How the asteroid story hit: An astronomer reveals how a discovery spun out of control (Added 1998 Mar. 29)
• 1997 XF₁₁: One-mile-wide asteroid to pass close to the earth in 2028 {Added 1998 Mar. 11, updated 1998 Mar. 12)
• One hundred potentially hazardous asteroids!
• 1997 MW₁: Amateur astronomer discovers Aten-class minor planet
• 1996 TO₆₆: Another large transneptunian object
• 1996 TL₆₆: A new type of transneptunian object
• Two unusual objects: 1996 PW and C/1996 N2
• C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake)
• C/1995 O1 (Hale-Bopp)

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