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The orbital distribution of near-Earth objects inside Earth's orbit Greenstreet, Sarah
Abstract
Canada's Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat), set to launch in early 2012, will search for and track Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), tuning its search to best detect objects with semimajor axis a<1.0 AU. In order to construct an optimal pointing strategy for NEOSSat, we needed more detailed information in the a<1.0 AU region than the best current model (Bottke et al., 2002) provides. We present here the NEOSSat-1.0 NEO orbital distribution model with larger statistics that permit finer resolution and less uncertainty, especially in the a<1.0 AU region. We find that Amors =30.1 ± 0.8%, Apollos =63.3 ± 0.4%, Atens =5.0 ± 0.3%, Atiras (0.718
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The orbital distribution of near-Earth objects inside Earth's orbit
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University of British Columbia
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2011
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Canada's Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat), set to launch in early 2012, will search for and track Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), tuning its search to best detect objects with semimajor axis a<1.0 AU. In order to construct an optimal pointing strategy for NEOSSat, we needed more detailed information in the a<1.0 AU region than the best current model (Bottke et al., 2002) provides. We present here the NEOSSat-1.0 NEO orbital distribution model with larger statistics that permit finer resolution and less uncertainty, especially in the a<1.0 AU region. We find that Amors =30.1 ± 0.8%, Apollos =63.3 ± 0.4%, Atens =5.0 ± 0.3%, Atiras (0.718
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eng
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2011-09-13
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0072205
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University of British Columbia
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2011-11
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Graduate
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International