Recovery of Kuiper Belt Objects

Details Recovery of Kuiper Belt Objects Recovery of Kuiper Belt Objects

Aug 1999

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999noao.prop..252a&link_type=abstract

NOAO Proposal ID #1999B-0252

Computer Science

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We will search 1.3 square degrees of the ecliptic in order to retrieve Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) discovered earlier in our May, 1999 CTIO KBO search. The ``digital tracking'' technique will allow us to detect KBOs as faint as R=26 near their predicted positions. No KBOs this faint have been followed for more than a few days, meaning that their semi-major axes and orbital eccentricities are almost completely unconstrained. Since our soon-to-be-discovered faint KBOs will provide the first significant sample of Halley-sized KBOs or objects in the primordial region beyond 50 AU, accurate orbital elements will be essential to understanding the generation of short period comets and the dynamical state of the primordial solar nebula.

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