Statistical quality of 2001 NQ8's pole solutions shown in a sinusoidal projection of the sky in ecliptic coordinates. The color coding and the scale bar on the right indicate the value of the ﹩{\chi }^{2}﹩ value normalized by the number of observations. The globally best-fit solutions at ﹩(\lambda ,\beta )=(72^\circ ,-49^\circ )﹩ and ﹩(\lambda ,\beta )=(242^\circ ,-46^\circ )﹩ (full circles) have ﹩{\chi }^{2}=1.7﹩ (normalized by the 948 data points). The solid line delimits solutions within the formal ﹩3\sigma ﹩ region of admissible solutions. These imply conservative estimates of about 10° uncertainty in ecliptic longitude and 15° uncertainty in ecliptic latitude.