Talk:Lost minor planet

Copy-editing
In response to the copy-editing request, I undertook to make the article easier to understand, but there's still a lot of room for improvement. For one thing, I'm not sure I understand the rationale for discussing minor planets up to 1000 and those above 1000 in separate sections. And within those sections (if they're even retained), I'm not sure how best to organize the paragraphs. For now, I tried to arrange mentions of each minor planet roughly in order of rediscovery, as that is part of what makes them "lost", but there's probably a better way. And while 1009 Sirene is mentioned, I'm not certain whether it actually is a lost asteroid—there's no further discussion of it here, and its main article doesn't currently call it one. Lusanaherandraton (talk) 10:22, 22 June 2010 (UTC)


 * I suspect that the 1,000 asteroids were discovered back in a time when the number of telescopes available to track and refine the orbits was much more limited. Asteroid 1009 Sirene has an orbit quality (condition code) of 1 and is not lost. The largest asteroid (dwarf planet) Ceres has an orbit quality of 0 where-as poorly know orbits would have a quality of 5 to 8. -- Kheider (talk) 17:45, 22 June 2010 (UTC)


 * Looks like Sirene was recovered in 1982. Fotaun (talk) 16:58, 16 September 2010 (UTC)

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