Mining the CFHT Legacy Survey for known Near Earth Asteroids

Details Mining the CFHT Legacy Survey for known Near Earth Asteroids Mining the CFHT Legacy Survey for known Near Earth Asteroids

2011-07-12

arxiv.org/abs/1107.2249v1

Astron. Nachr. / AN 332, No. 6, 580 - 587 (2011)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Accepted in Astron. Nachr. (10 pags)

Scientific paper

10.1002/asna.201011550

The Canada-France-Hawaii Legacy Survey (CFHTLS) comprising about 25 000 MegaCam images was data mined to search for serendipitous encounters of known Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs) and Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs). A total of 143 asteroids (109 NEAs and 34 PHAs) were found on 508 candidate images which were field corrected and measured carefully, and their astrometry was reported to Minor Planet Centre. Both recoveries and precoveries (apparitions before discovery) were reported, including data for 27 precovered asteroids (20 NEAs and 7 PHAs) and 116 recovered asteroids (89 NEAs and 27 PHAs). Our data prolonged arcs for 41 orbits at first or last opposition, refined 35 orbits by fitting data taken at one new opposition, recovered 6 NEAs at their second opposition and allowed us to ameliorate most orbits and their Minimal Orbital Intersection Distance (MOID), an important parameter to monitor for potential Earth impact hazard in the future.

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