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NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Year One: Preliminary Asteroid Diameters and Albedos

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2015-12-01 v1

Abstract

We present preliminary diameters and albedos for 7,959 asteroids detected in the first year of the NEOWISE Reactivation mission. 201 are near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). 7,758 are Main Belt or Mars-crossing asteroids. 17% of these objects have not been previously characterized using WISE or NEOWISE thermal measurements. Diameters are determined to an accuracy of ~20% or better. If good-quality H magnitudes are available, albedos can be determined to within ~40% or better.

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@article{arxiv.1509.02522,
  title  = {NEOWISE Reactivation Mission Year One: Preliminary Asteroid Diameters and Albedos},
  author = {C. R. Nugent and A. Mainzer and J. Masiero and J. Bauer and R. M. Cutri and T. Grav and E. Kramer and S. Sonnett and R. Stevenson and E. L. Wright},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.02522},
  year   = {2015}
}

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42 pages, 5 figures