Anvantages of searching for asteroids from low earth orbit: The NEOSSat mission

Earth, Moon and Planets

Volumn 95, Issue 1-4, 2005, Pages 33-40

  Hildebr, A R ^a   Carroll, K A ^b   Tedesco, E F ^c   Faber, D R ^b   Cardinal, R D ^a   Matthews, J M ^d   Kuschnig, R ^d   Walker, G A H ^d   Gladman, B ^d   Pazder, J ^e   Brown, P G ^f   Larson, S M ^g   Worden, S P ^g   Wallace, B J ^h   Chodas, P W ⁱ   Muinonen, K ^j   Cheng, A ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Dynacon Inc   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h DEFENCE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CANADA   (Canada)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^k APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

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Author keywords

Asteroid; Asteroid searching; Aten; IEO; Microsatellite mission; NEOs; NEOSSat spacecraft; NESS project; Observing parallax

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID;

EID: 33645080686     PISSN: 01679295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11038-005-9016-z     Document Type: Article

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