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Near-Earth Objects (NEO) and other current space threats

open access: yesSecurity and Defence Quarterly, 2020
Objectives The subject of the study are space threats – Near-Earth Objects (NEO) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA). Methods The research methods employed in this article included the classic theoretical methods used in security sciences and a
Radosław Bielawski
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Robotic observation pipeline for small bodies in the solar system based on open-source software and commercially available telescope hardware

open access: yesFrontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022
The observation of small bodies in the Space Environment is an ongoing important task in astronomy. While nowadays new objects are mostly detected in larger sky surveys, several follow-up observations are usually needed for each object to improve the ...
Tobias Hoffmann   +12 more
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Preatmospheric Detection of a Meter-sized Earth Impactor

open access: yesThe Planetary Science Journal, 2023
On 2020 September 18 U.S. Government (USG) sensors detected a bolide with peak bolometric magnitude of −19 over the Western Pacific. The impact was also detected by the Geostationary Lightning Mapper instrument on the GOES-17 satellite and infrasound ...
David L. Clark   +5 more
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Identifying Near Earth Object Families

open access: yes, 2005
The study of asteroid families has provided tremendous insight into the forces that sculpted the main belt and continue to drive the collisional and dynamical evolution of asteroids. The identification of asteroid families within the NEO population could
Benz   +47 more
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The Mission Accessible Near-Earth Objects Survey: Four years of photometry [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Over 4.5 years, the Mission Accessible Near-Earth Object Survey (MANOS) assembled 228 Near-Earth Object (NEO) lightcurves. We report rotational lightcurves for 82 NEOs, constraints on amplitudes and periods for 21 NEOs, lightcurves with no detected ...
Binzel, Richard P.   +12 more
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Report of workshop "Future research plans for solid Earth sciences in the Antarctic Ocean"

open access: yesAntarctic Record, 2000
A workshop on "Future research plans for solid Earth sciences in the Antarctic Ocean" was held on February 17,2000. The main object of the workshop was to make concrete research plans for solid Earth sciences in the Antarctic Ocean by clarifying various ...
Yoshifumi Nogi
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FEATURES OF KOTLIN ORBIT ESTIMATION LIBRARY

open access: yesOdessa Astronomical Publications, 2018
Since the launch of Sputnik 1, the number of objects in near-earth orbit has been constantly increasing. The growth of number of these objects increases the risk of their collisions with existing satellites and ones which will be launched, that can be ...
L. S. Shakun
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HIGH-RISE TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCES FOR ISOTHERMAL SPACE OBJECT OF THE SPHERICAL FORM [PDF]

open access: yesНаучно-технический вестник информационных технологий, механики и оптики, 2014
Thermal balance of spherical space object in a near-earth space is investigated. Analytical description of stationary average temperature of such object in view of the existence of internal sources of thermal emissions and sunlight absorbed by its ...
A. M. Dzitoev   +2 more
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Nuclear and Orbital Characterization of the Transition Object (4015) 107P/Wilson–Harrington

open access: yesThe Planetary Science Journal, 2023
Comet 107P/Wilson–Harrington, cross-listed as asteroid 4015, is one of the original transition objects whose properties do not neatly fit into a cometary or asteroidal origin.
Theodore Kareta, Vishnu Reddy
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The Discovery of Cometary Activity in Near-Earth Asteroid (3552) Don Quixote [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The near-Earth object (NEO) population, which mainly consists of fragments from collisions between asteroids in the main asteroid belt, is thought to include contributions from short-period comets as well.
Cruikshank, Dale P.   +10 more
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