出典:Wiktionary
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/06/18 16:48 UTC 版)
The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) is a planned array of astronomical cameras and telescopes and computing facility that will survey the sky on a continual basis, including accurate astrometry and photometry of detected objects. By detecting any differences from previous observations of the same areas of the sky, it is expected to discover a very large number of new asteroids, comets, variable stars and other celestial objects. Its primary mission is to detect near-Earth objects that threaten impact events and is expected to create a database of all objects visible from Hawaii (three-quarters of the entire sky) down to apparent magnitude 24.