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Accurate measurements of osculating orbital elements are essential in order to understand and model the complex dynamic behavior of Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs). ESA's Gaia mission promises to have great potential in this respect. In this…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-19 Siegfried Eggl , Hadrien Devillepoix

Context: The measurement of the Yarkovsky effect on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is common practice in orbit determination today, and the number of detections will increase with the developments of new and more accurate telescopic surveys.…

We present a novel pipeline that uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to improve the detection capability of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) in the context of planetary defense. Our work aims to minimize the dependency on human…

We report a detection of a faint near-Earth asteroid (NEA), which was done using our synthetic tracking technique and the CHIMERA instrument on the Palomar 200-inch telescope. This asteroid, with apparent magnitude of 23, was moving at 5.97…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-20 Chengxing Zhai , Michael Shao , Bijan Nemati , Thomas A. Werne , Hanying Zhou , Slava G. Turyshev , Jagmit Sandhu , Gregg W. Hallinan , Leon K. Harding

We have made an extensive search for grouping amongst the near Earth asteroids (NEAs). We used two D- functions and rigorous cluster analysis approach. We have found sev- eral new groups (associations) among the NEAs: the objects moving on…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-04 Tadeusz J. Jopek

We propose to use a modest fraction of the re-purposed Kepler mission time and apertures to greatly increase the quantity and quality of our knowledge of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) rotation and shape. NEAs are important for understanding…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-11 Martin Elvis , José Luis Galache , Gareth V. Williams

We describe a new iteration method to estimate asteroid coordinates, which is based on the subpixel Gaussian model of a discrete object image. The method operates by continuous parameters (asteroid coordinates) in a discrete observational…

Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and dead comets comprise the vast majority of the population of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) detected to date. Less is known of their physical properties than of the much larger population of main-belt asteroids.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-14 Mark Trueblood , Larry Lebofsky , Robert Crawford

Small aperture telescopes provide the opportunity to conduct high frequency, targeted observations of near-Earth Asteroids that are not feasible with larger facilities due to highly competitive time allocation requirements. Observations of…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-30 Samuel L. Jackson , Ulrich C. Kolb , Simon F. Green

We have used Minor Planet Center data and tools to explore the discovery circumstances and properties of the currently known population of over 10,000 NEAs, and to quantify the challenges for follow-up from ground-based telescopes. The…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. L. Galache , C. L. Beeson , K. K. McLeod , M. Elvis

The number of known Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) has continued to grow in the last decade. Follow-up and recovery of newly discovered objects, as well as new astrometry at second or third…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ovidiu Vaduvescu , Mirel Birlan

We determine the possible detection rate of asteroids with the Bering mission. In particular we examine the outcome of the Bering mission in relation to the populations of Near-Earth Asteroids and main belt asteroids. This is done by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rene Michelsen , Henning Haack , Anja C. Andersen , John L. Joergensen

In this paper we present a two-step neural network model to separate detections of solar system objects from optical and electronic artifacts in data obtained with the "Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System" (ATLAS), a near-Earth…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Amandin Chyba Rabeendran , Larry Denneau

Modern astronomical surveys detect asteroids by linking together their appearances across multiple images taken over time. This approach faces limitations in detecting faint asteroids and handling the computational complexity of trajectory…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-25 Nathan Golovich , Trevor Steil , Alex Geringer-Sameth , Keita Iwabuchi , Ryan Dozier , Roger Pearce

We demonstrate the efficiency and effectiveness of using a satellite-based sensor with visual and infrared focal plane arrays to search for NEAs with orbits largely interior to the Earth's orbit. Such a space-based system could detect…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. F. Tedesco , K. Muinonen , S. D. Price

Observational astronomy has changed drastically in the last decade: manually driven target-by-target instruments have been replaced by fully automated robotic telescopes. Data acquisition methods have advanced to the point that terabytes of…

Increasing our knowledge of the orbits and compositions of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) is important for a better understanding of the evolution of the Solar System and of life. The detection of serendipitous NEO appearances among the millions…

The nature and physical properties of asteroids, in particular those orbiting in the near-Earth space, are of scientific interest and practical importance. Exoplanet surveys can be excellent resources to detect asteroids, both already known…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 M. Cortés-Contreras , F. M. Jiménez-Esteban , M. Mahlke , E. Solano , J. Ďurech , S. Barceló Forteza , C. Rodrigo , A. Velasco , B. Carry

We present the results of the first-ever visible spectroscopic survey fully dedicated to the small (absolute magnitude H>20) near-Earth asteroid (NEA) population. Observations have been performed at the New Technology Telescope (NTT) of the…