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An optimal Mars Trojan asteroid search strategy [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012 Trojan asteroids are minor planets that share the orbit of a planet about the Sun and librate around the L4 or L5 Lagrangian points of stability. Although only three Mars Trojans have been discovered, models suggest that at least ten times this number should exist with diameters >= 1 km. We derive a model that constrains optimal sky search areas and
Todd, Michael +3 more
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SAFARI: Searching Asteroids for Activity Revealing Indicators [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2018 25 pages, 6 figures, 5 ...
Colin Orion Chandler +4 more
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Experience in Asteroid Search using Astrometrica Software [PDF]
International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2019 The present work of this research consists of the analysis of telescopic images provided by the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC) to find asteroids that can be named. The concern in searching for asteroids helps the scientific community that promotes the collaboration of young students and astronomy fans get experience in finding ...
Ascencio Moran, Junior +3 more
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Optimal searches for asteroids [PDF]
Icarus, 1984 Optimal searches for a fixed object are discussed, and the rigorous analytical results of discrete search theory are presented. The totally optimal, the uniformly optimal, the locally optimal, and the fastest searches are shown to be identical under not too restrictive assumptions.
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Gaia search for early-formed andesitic asteroidal crusts
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 Context. Andesitic meteorites are among the oldest achondrites known to date. They record volcanic events and crust formation episodes in primordial planetesimals that took place about 4.565 Myr ago. However, no analogue for these meteorites has been found in the asteroid population to date. Aims.
Galinier, M. +4 more
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An optimal Earth Trojan asteroid search strategy [PDF]
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2012 Abstract Trojan asteroids are minor planets that share the orbit of a planet about the Sun and librate around the L4 or L5 Lagrangian points of stability. They are important solar-system fossils because they carry information on early Solar system formation, when collisions between bodies were more frequent.
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SSOS: A Moving-Object Image Search Tool for Asteroid Precovery [PDF]
Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2012 It is very difficult to find archival images of solar system objects. While regular archive searches can find images at a fixed location, they cannot find images of moving targets. Archival images have become increasingly useful to galactic and stellar astronomers the last few years but, until now, solar system researchers have been at a disadvantage ...
Kavelaars, J. +2 more
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ASTEROIDS SEARCH RESULTS IN LARGE PHOTOGRAPHIC SKY SURVEYS
Odessa Astronomical Publications, 2017 Photographic observations of XX century contained numerous and varied information about all objects and events of the Universe fixed on plates. The original and interesting observations of small bodies of the Solar system in previous years can be selected and used for various scientific tasks.
Shatokhina, S. V. +4 more
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A photometric search for active Main Belt asteroids [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2014 It is well known that some Main Belt asteroids show comet-like features. A representative example is the first known Main Belt comet 133P/(7968) Elst-Pizarro. If the mechanisms causing this activity are too weak to develop visually evident comae or tails, the objects stay unnoticed. We are presenting a novel way to search for active asteroids, based on
Ortiz, J. +4 more
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A NEAR-INFRARED SEARCH FOR SILICATES IN JOVIAN TROJAN ASTEROIDS [PDF]
The Astronomical Journal, 2011 We obtained near-infrared (0.8 - 2.5 micron) spectra of seven Jovian Trojan asteroids that have been formerly reported to show silicate-like absorption features near 1 micron. Our sample includes the Trojan (1172) Aneas, which is one of three Trojans known to possess a comet-like 10 micron emission feature, indicative of fine-grained silicates.
Yang, Bin, Jewitt, David
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