From astrometry to celestial mechanics: Orbit determination with very short arcs

Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy

Volumn 92, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 1-18

  Milani, Andrea ^a   Knežević, Zoran ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Asteroid recovery; Ephemerides; Orbit determination

Indexed keywords

EID: 24344477062     PISSN: 09232958     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10569-005-3314-7     Document Type: Article

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