DEBRIS sightings in the Kepler field

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 8151, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Witteborn, Fred C ^a   Van Cleve, Jeffrey ^a   Borucki, William ^a   Argabright, Vic ^b   Hascall, Patrick ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

^c Orbital Network Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

comet dust trails; Kepler telescope; meteoroids; spacecraft debris

Indexed keywords

COMET DUST TRAILS; EXTENDED SOURCES; FIELD OF VIEWS; FOCAL PLANE; FUTURE MISSION; KEPLER TELESCOPE; LINE-OF-SIGHT; METEOROID IMPACTS; METEOROIDS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; VISUAL APPEARANCE;

DATA REDUCTION; DUST; LIGHT SOURCES; OPTICAL TELESCOPES; TELESCOPES; VISUALIZATION;

DEBRIS;

EID: 80053531235     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.892850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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