Stay updated with our latest research findings, announcements, and discoveries in stellar occultation studies.
In May, two Occultation Group members presented a poster at the Virginia Academy of Sciences (VAS), detailing a stellar occultation by (623) Chimaera.
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In March 2026, eight Occultation Group observers traveled to New South Wales, Australia, to hunt an occultation by a small moon of Jupiter.
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In January, the Occultation group traveled to the United Arab Emirates to occult (269) Justitia, a target of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA).
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In late September, the Occultation Group organized a campaign to characterize the shape of Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt target (623) Chimaera, including a eight telescope deployment by the group.
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In late September, members of the Occultation Group traveled to the island of Kauaʻi to observe an occultation by the dwarf planet Quaoar.
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Our team has completed our last campaign to gather data to profile this target of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt, set to launch March 2028.
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At the end of May 2022, UVA students Liam Walters and Becky Williams flew from Charlottesville to Northern Australia to observe the dwarf planet Pluto.
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On March 27, 2022, three UVA teams traveled to North Carolina to observe asteroid (15904) Polymele.
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