The near-earth asteroid tracking (neat) program: An automated system for telescope control, wide-field imaging, and object detection

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1616-1633

  Pravdo, Steven H ^a   Rabinowitz, David L ^a   Helin, Eleanor F ^a   Lawrence, Kenneth J ^a   Bambery, Raymond J ^a   Clark, Christopher C ^a   Groom, Steven L ^a   Levin, Steven ^a   Lorre, Jean ^a   Shaklan, Stuart B ^a   Kervin, Paul ^b   Africano, John A ^b   Sydney, Paul ^b   Soohoo, Vicki ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b USAF Research Laboratories   (United States)

Author keywords

Instrumentation: Detectors; Minor planets, asteroids; Techniques: Image processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 17444453199     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/300769     Document Type: Article

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