Error statistics of asteroid optical astrometric observations

Icarus

Volumn 166, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 248-270

  Carpino, Mario ^a   Milani, Andrea ^b   Chesley, Steven R ^c  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Data reduction techniques; Orbits

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346343373     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00051-4     Document Type: Article

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