The orbital distribution of near-Earth objects inside Earth's orbit

Canada's Near-Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat), set to launch in early 2012, will search for and track Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), tuning its search to best detect objects with semimajor axis a<1.0 AU. In order to construct an optimal pointing strategy for NEOSSat, we needed more...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenstreet, Sarah
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/37251