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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 211-228 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Journal | CELESTIAL MECHANICS AND DYNAMICAL ASTRONOMY |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2011 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs)
- Orbit determination
- Orbit refinement
- Orbital elements
- Space observations
- Triangulation
- Very short arc observations
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Modeling and Simulation
- Mathematical Physics
- Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Space and Planetary Science
- Computational Mathematics
- Applied Mathematics