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    15760 Albion (provisional designation 1992 QB1) was the first trans-Neptunian object to be discovered after Pluto and Charon. Measuring about 108–167 kilometres...
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    Charon: 15760 Albion, which until January 2018 had only the provisional designation (15760) 1992 QB1. Similar objects found later were often called "QB1-o's"...
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  • QB1 may refer to: (15760) 1992 QB1, the first trans-Neptunian object to be discovered after Pluto and Charon Cubewano, a class of trans-Neptunian objects...
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  • discovered after Pluto and Charon, the first having been 15760 Albion, formerly known as (15760) 1992 QB1. It was discovered in 1993 by David C. Jewitt and Jane...
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  • Smiley, Saskatchewan, Canada, a village 1613 Smiley, an asteroid (15760) 1992 QB1, a trans-Neptunian object, the first discovered, for which Smiley was...
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    designation may become used as a name in itself: the then-unnamed (15760) 1992 QB1 gave its "name" to a group of objects that became known as classical...
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    University of Hawaii's 2.2 meter telescope on Mauna Kea. This object is (15760) 1992 QB1, which she and Jewitt nicknamed "Smiley". The American Astronomical...
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    Kuiper belt (category Astronomical objects discovered in 1992)
    announced on 30 August 1992 the "Discovery of the candidate Kuiper belt object 1992 QB1". This object would later be named 15760 Albion. Six months later...
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    objects, also known as cubewanos (after 15760 Albion, which had the provisional designation (15760) 1992 QB1 from its 1992 discovery to its 2018 naming), have...
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  • astronomer and co-discoverer of the first classical Kuiper belt object, (15760) 1992 QB1 MPC · 5430 5431 Maxinehelin 1988 MB Maxine Anne Helin, mother-in-law...
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