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The population of near-Earth objects discovered by Spacewatch

✍ Scribed by T. Gehrels; R. Jedicke

Book ID
104627435
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
645 KB
Volume
72
Category
Article
ISSN
1573-0794

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✦ Synopsis

In the past three years the Spacewatch program at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory has discovered ~45% of the new Earth Approaching asteroids and found evidence for an unheralded population of small (wlOm> objects in the inner solar system. This success is due to the automated Moving Object Detection Program (MODP) which searches successive scans over the sa.me region for objects showing consistent motion. Highlights of recent discoveries, an update on research, and. the development and potential of the new 1.8m Spacewatch facility will be discussed.

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