An optimal Earth Trojan asteriod search strategy
Trojan asteroids are minor planets that share the orbit of a planet about the Sun and librate around the L4 or L5 Lagrangian points of stability. They are important solar-system fossils because they carry information on early Solar system formation, when collisions between bodies were more frequent....
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| description | Trojan asteroids are minor planets that share the orbit of a planet about the Sun and librate around the L4 or L5 Lagrangian points of stability. They are important solar-system fossils because they carry information on early Solar system formation, when collisions between bodies were more frequent. Discovery and study of terrestrial planet Trojans will help constrain models for the distribution of bodies and interactions in the inner Solar system. Since the discovery of the first outer planet Trojan in 1906, several thousand Jupiter Trojans have been found. Of the terrestrial planets, there are four known Mars Trojans, and one Earth Trojan has been recently discovered. We present a new model that constrains optimal search areas, and imaging cadences for narrow and wide-field survey telescopes including the Gaia satellite for the most efficient use of telescope time to maximize the probability of detecting additional Earth Trojans. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-119002017-09-13T16:02:37Z An optimal Earth Trojan asteriod search strategy Todd, Michael Tanga, P. Coward, D. Zadnik, Marjan minor planets methods planets and satellites - general observational asteroids - general numerical celestial mechanics Trojan asteroids are minor planets that share the orbit of a planet about the Sun and librate around the L4 or L5 Lagrangian points of stability. They are important solar-system fossils because they carry information on early Solar system formation, when collisions between bodies were more frequent. Discovery and study of terrestrial planet Trojans will help constrain models for the distribution of bodies and interactions in the inner Solar system. Since the discovery of the first outer planet Trojan in 1906, several thousand Jupiter Trojans have been found. Of the terrestrial planets, there are four known Mars Trojans, and one Earth Trojan has been recently discovered. We present a new model that constrains optimal search areas, and imaging cadences for narrow and wide-field survey telescopes including the Gaia satellite for the most efficient use of telescope time to maximize the probability of detecting additional Earth Trojans. 2012 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11900 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01186.x Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd. fulltext |
| spellingShingle | minor planets methods planets and satellites - general observational asteroids - general numerical celestial mechanics Todd, Michael Tanga, P. Coward, D. Zadnik, Marjan An optimal Earth Trojan asteriod search strategy |
| title | An optimal Earth Trojan asteriod search strategy |
| title_full | An optimal Earth Trojan asteriod search strategy |
| title_fullStr | An optimal Earth Trojan asteriod search strategy |
| title_full_unstemmed | An optimal Earth Trojan asteriod search strategy |
| title_short | An optimal Earth Trojan asteriod search strategy |
| title_sort | optimal earth trojan asteriod search strategy |
| topic | minor planets methods planets and satellites - general observational asteroids - general numerical celestial mechanics |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11900 |