Sunday, February 19, 2012

Asteroids and comets

Radar provides the adeptness to abstraction shape, admeasurement and circuit accompaniment of asteroids and comets from the ground. Alarm imaging has produced images with up to 7.5-m resolution. With acceptable data, the size, shape, circuit and alarm albedo of the ambition asteroids can be extracted.

Only 15 comets accept been advised by radar,6 including 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann. There accept been alarm observations of 280 Near-Earth asteroids and 124 Main belt asteroids.6

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