Search Results - "Chesley, Steve"
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The Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-04-2013)“…ABSTRACT We describe the Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System (MOPS), a modern software package that produces automatic asteroid discoveries and…”
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Impact probability under aleatory and epistemic uncertainties
Published in Celestial mechanics and dynamical astronomy (01-12-2020)“…We present an approach to estimate an upper bound for the impact probability of a potentially hazardous asteroid when part of the force model depends on…”
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Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos
Published in Nature (London) (20-04-2023)“…Some active asteroids have been proposed to be formed as a result of impact events 1 . Because active asteroids are generally discovered by chance only after…”
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The Pan-STARRS Synthetic Solar System Model: A Tool for Testing and Efficiency Determination of the Moving Object Processing System
Published in Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (01-04-2011)“…We present here the Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System (MOPS) Synthetic Solar System Model (S3M), the first-ever attempt at building a comprehensive…”
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Detection of Earth-impacting asteroids with the next generation all-sky surveys
Published in Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962) (01-10-2009)“…We have performed a simulation of a next generation sky survey’s (Pan-STARRS 1) efficiency for detecting Earth-impacting asteroids. The steady-state sky-plane…”
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Yarkovsky detection opportunities. II. Binary systems
Published in Icarus (New York, N.Y. 1962) (01-12-2005)“…We consider the possibility of detecting the Yarkovsky orbital perturbation acting on binary systems among the near-Earth asteroids. This task is significantly…”
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Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos
Published 03-03-2023“…Some active asteroids have been proposed to be the result of impact events. Because active asteroids are generally discovered serendipitously only after their…”
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NEOSurvey 1: Initial results from the Warm Spitzer Exploration Science Survey of Near Earth Object Properties
Published 12-08-2016“…Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are small Solar System bodies whose orbits bring them close to the Earth's orbit. We are carrying out a Warm Spitzer Cycle 11…”
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The Design Reference Asteroid for the OSIRIS-REx Mission Target (101955) Bennu
Published 16-09-2014“…The Design Reference Asteroid (DRA) is a compilation of all that is known about the OSIRIS-REx mission target, asteroid (101955) Bennu. It contains our best…”
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Detection of Earth-impacting asteroids with the next generation all-sky surveys
Published 22-05-2009“…Icarus 203:472-485,2009 We have performed a simulation of a next generation sky survey's (Pan-STARRS 1) efficiency for detecting Earth-impacting asteroids. The…”
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The Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System
Published 28-02-2013“…We describe the Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System (MOPS), a modern software package that produces automatic asteroid discoveries and identifications…”
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