In the fall of 1998 the students in Introductory Astronomy at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts were working on the HOU Asteroid Search Project when students found an interesting looking object in one of their subtraction results. As it turned out this object was an undiscovered Kuiper Belt Object, also know as a trans-Neptunian Object. After the discovery data were checked by the students of teacher Tim Spuck at Oil City High School in Oil City, Pennsylvania and Dr. Carlton Pennypacker of Lawrence Berkekely National Lab and the University of California at Berkeley, the information was reported to the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The discovery was accepted as real and given the designation of 1998 FS144.

If you were the students investigating the discovery images, would you have found 1998 FS144?

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