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A Search for Bright Kuiper Belt Objects
Michael J.I. Brown 
and R. L. Webster
School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic 3052, Australia
mbrown@physics.unimelb.edu.au
Abstract:
Since 1992, 60 large Kuiper belt objects have been detected by ground-based telescopes. Previous surveys which have detected objects have searched approximately 
and detected objects with magnitudes 
. However, the luminosity function of brighter Kuiper belt objects is not well determined. The detection of brighter objects would improve our ability to determine the Kuiper belt objects' surface composition and provide constraints on the population statistics of different formation mechanisms. This paper describes a survey of 
of sky near the ecliptic to a limiting magnitude of 
. A slow moving candidate was detected near the magnitude limit of the survey.
Keywords: comets: general - solar system: general
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