Leucus Asteroid: Efficient and Accurate Citizen Science with the Unistellar eVscope

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Marseille and Mountain View, January 7, 2020. Ten minutes for a time-validated asteroid occultation of NASA’s importance: this is what Unistellar recently achieved in Irvine, California, by being one of the first-time observers of a Leucus occultation. Leucus is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid discovered in 1997 by the Beijing Xinglong Observatory. Around April 2028, NASA’s…