The population of near-Earth objects discovered by Spacewatch

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article , Part of book or chapter of book 01 Jan 1996 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Earth, Moon, and Planets, volume 72, pages 233-242 (issn: 0167-9295, eissn: 1573-0794,

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Authors: T. Gehrels; R. Jedicke;

doi: 10.1007/bf00117523 , 10.1007/978-94-009-0209-1_30

The population of near-Earth objects discovered by Spacewatch

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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 (~10m) objects in the inner solar system. This success is due to the automated Moving Object Detection Program (MODP) which searches successive scans over the same 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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