An early warning system for asteroid impact

JL Tonry - Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
Earth is bombarded by meteors, occasionally by one large enough to cause a significant
explosion and possible loss of life. It is not possible to detect all hazardous asteroids, and …

The Pan-STARRS moving object processing system

L Denneau, R Jedicke, T Grav, M Granvik… - Publications of the …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe the Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System (MOPS), a modern
software package that produces automatic asteroid discoveries and identifications from …

A search for a distant companion to the Sun with the wide-field infrared survey explorer

KL Luhman - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT I have used multi-epoch astrometry from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
to perform a search for a distant companion to the Sun via its parallactic motion. I have not …

A Subaru archival search for faint trans-Neptunian objects

CI Fuentes, MJ Holman - The Astronomical Journal, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a survey for trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) based on Subaru
archival images, originally collected by Sheppard et al. in 2005 as part of a search for …

An outer planet beyond Pluto and the origin of the trans-Neptunian belt architecture

PS Lykawka, T Mukai - The Astronomical Journal, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are remnants of a collisionally and dynamically
evolved planetesimal disk in the outer solar system. This complex structure, known as the …

The NEO Surveyor Near-Earth Asteroid Known Object Model

T Grav, AK Mainzer, JR Masiero… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The known near-Earth object (NEO) population consists of over 32,000 objects, with a yearly
discovery rate of over 3000 NEOs per year. An essential component of the next generation …

SAFARI: Searching asteroids for activity revealing indicators

CO Chandler, AM Curtis, M Mommert… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Active asteroids behave dynamically like asteroids but display comet-like comae. These
objects are poorly understood, with only about 30 identified to date. We have conducted one …

[HTML][HTML] Scientific issues and critical technologies in planetary defense

Q Cheng, W Zhang - Chinese Journal of Aeronautics, 2024 - Elsevier
In history, the Earth has encountered frequent and massive impacts. Until today, it is still a
collided target for Potentially Hazardous Objects (PHOs), gradually making planetary …

Properties of the distant Kuiper belt: results from the Palomar Distant Solar System Survey

ME Schwamb, ME Brown, DL Rabinowitz… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a wide-field survey using the 1.2 m Samuel Oschin Telescope at
Palomar Observatory. This survey was designed to find the most distant members of the …

Interpreting the densities of the Kuiper belt's dwarf planets

AC Barr, ME Schwamb - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) with absolute magnitude less than 3 (radius≳ 500 km), the dwarf
planets, have a range of different ice/rock ratios, and are more rock-rich than their smaller …