The Gaia Mission: Expected Applications to Asteroid Science

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Dec 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007em%26p..101...97m&link_type=abstract

Earth, Moon, and Planets, Volume 101, Issue 3-4, pp. 97-125

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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Asteroids, Astrometry, Photometry, Spectroscopy, Space-Based Observations

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According to current plans of the European space agency, Gaia will be launched in 2011. By performing a systematic survey of the whole sky down to magnitude V = 20, this mission will provide a fundamental contribution in practically all branches of modern Astrophysics. Gaia will be able to survey with repeated observations spanning over 5 years several 100,000 s asteroids. It will directly measure sizes of about 1,000 objects, obtain the masses of about 100 of them, derive spin properties and overall shapes of more than 10,000 objects, yield much improved orbits and taxonomic classification for most of the observed sources. The final harvest will very likely include new discoveries of objects orbiting at heliocentric distances less than 1 AU. At the end of the mission, we will know average densities of about 100 objects belonging to all the major taxonomic classes, have a much more precise knowledge of the inventory and size and spin distributions of the population, of the distribution of taxonomic classes as a function of heliocentric distance, and of the dynamical and physical properties of dynamical families.

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