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Ita-Crao Minor Planet Survey: Results and Prospects

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

N. S. Chernykh  and
A.G. Sokolsky
N. S. Chernykh
Affiliation:
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory Nauchnyj, Crimea, Ukraine
A.G. Sokolsky
Affiliation:
Institute of Theoretical Astronomy, Russian Acad, of Sciences St. Petersburg, Russia

Abstract

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Results of minor planet observation programme that is made jointly by the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy and the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory during three decades with the Zeiss 40-cm double astrograph at Crimea are presented. Almost all permanently numbered minor planets were observed. A catalogue of astrometrical results obtained in the course of this survey contains more than 60 thousand minor planet positions. Many thousand unnumbered asteroids were discovered, 875 of which had received permanent numbers by June of 1996.

In the development of this survey programme we plan to use another Crimean telescope – the fast 64-cm telescope of Richter and Slevogt system. We intend to equip it with a CCD camera and use it for searching and observation of the Near Earth Asteroids. In the future this CCD-telescope must be a part of the national Russian network for Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) observations.

Type
Observational Techniques and Catalogues
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 165: Dynamics and Astrometry of Natural and Artificial Celestial Bodies , 1997 , pp. 567 - 570
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1997

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