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Evaluate Ponder vs. SkyBot vs. JPL

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Description

- [ ] Evaluate many fields, distributed randomly.
- [ ] Make sure fields include New Horizons, faint and bright TNOs, comets, 3I, Trojans, and other known challenging cases.
- [ ] Assess which objects are present in all, and, for each service, which are missing
- [ ] Compare positions
- [ ] Evaluate uncertainties on position
- [ ] Compare rates
- [ ] Compare predicted magnitude(s)
- [ ] When available, compare to Rubin-derived measured positions and magnitudes
- [ ] When available, compare with KBMOD results

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