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Orbital Selection Effects in the Palomar-Leiden Asteroid Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

L. Kresák
L. Kresák*
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Czechoslovakia

Abstract

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The selection effects appearing in the list of minor planet orbits based on the Palomar-Leiden survey are discussed. In addition to purely geometrical effects produced by the limitation of the survey in time and position, the arrangement of orbits by perturbations plays an important role. Some apparent differences from the orbits of brighter asteroids can be easily explained. As an example of the operation of the selection effects, it is shown that the asteroidal Jetstream believed to exist within the Nysa family is spurious.

Type
Part I-Observations
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 12: Physical Studies of Minor Planets , 1971 , pp. 197 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © NASA 1971

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