Refinement of Near Earth Asteroids' orbital elements via simultaneous measurements by two observers
- Author(s)
- Siegfried Eggl
- Abstract
The aspects of triangulation of Near Earth Asteroids by two arbitrarily positioned observers (one spaceborne and the other Earth-bound, as well as both spaceborne) are being investigated, and the resulting orbital elements are compared to those gained through common orbital determination and refinement techniques. The main advantages of the method proposed in this work are, that given the approximate position of an asteroid, high quality orbital elements can be acquired very rapidly using two observations only.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- Journal
- Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy: an international journal of space dynamics
- Volume
- 109
- Pages
- 211-228
- No. of pages
- 18
- ISSN
- 0923-2958
- Publication date
- 2011
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/33f139d0-8040-43c9-8d08-10ddd1e82d1b