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Measuring the Distances to Asteroids from One Observatory in One Night with Upcoming All-sky Telescopes

  • Authors: Maryann Benny Fernandes, Daniel Scolnic, Erik Richard Peterson, Chengxing Zhai, Tyler Linder, Maria Acevedo, Daniel Reichart

Maryann Benny Fernandes et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Similar to Figure 1. (Top panel) We obtain synthetic data for 4953 from Horizons. The blue dots indicate the R.A. observations from 2024 October 30–31, at every hour, totaling 48 observations. We fit Equation (5) to the data as shown by the green line. (Bottom panel) The residuals after subtracting out the asteroids' motion from Equation (5) are shown by the green line and from the data are shown by blue dots. The highlighted red region in both rows represents the real-time observation of 4953 as seen in Figure 7.

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