Statistical Ranging of Asteroid Orbits
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Jenni Virtanen; Karri Muinonen; Edward Bowell
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Article
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2001
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We present a new orbit determination method, termed statistical ranging, applicable to poorly observed single-apparition asteroids having two or more observations. We examine the Bayesian a posteriori probability density of the orbital elements using a Monte Carlo technique that maps an unbiased hyp