A CCD System to Detect Fast-Moving Asteroids

T. Gehrels; H. Boesgaard; L. R. Doose; J. E. Frecker; R. S. McMillan; M. L. Perry; J. V. Scotti; E. M. Shoemaker; D. Tholen

doi:10.1364/IPAO.1983.ThA8

Joint Topical Meeting on Information Processing in Astronomy and Optics
Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1983),
paper ThA8
•https://doi.org/10.1364/IPAO.1983.ThA8

A CCD System to Detect Fast-Moving Asteroids

T. Gehrels, H. Boesgaard, L. R. Doose, J. E. Frecker, R. S. McMillan, M. L. Perry, J. V. Scotti, E. M. Shoemaker, and D. Tholen

Information Processing in Astronomy and Optics 1983

St. Paul, Minnesota United States
23–24 June 1983
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T. Gehrels, H. Boesgaard, L. R. Doose, J. E. Frecker, R. S. McMillan, M. L. Perry, J. V. Scotti, E. M. Shoemaker, and D. Tholen, "A CCD System to Detect Fast-Moving Asteroids," in Joint Topical Meeting on Information Processing in Astronomy and Optics, Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 1983), paper ThA8.

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Abstract

A rendezvous by a space probe with an asteroid will allow the composition of the asteroid to be studied in great detail. Since some "asteroids" are the cores of extinct comets, such spacecraft will also permit the properties of these mysterious objects to be clarified.

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