Search of candidates for active asteroids among the NEA
Abstract
The Institute of Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been conducting observations of near-Earth objects since 2010, and a large archive of photometric data has been obtained. In order to determine the criteria for identifying objects for archival search of cometary activity near asteroids, distributions by orbital elements and physical characteristics of known active asteroids (AAs) are considered. Based on the analysis of the AAs distributions and the orbital elements of the near-Earth asteroids (NEA) from the INASAN archive, several asteroids were included in the list of objects for further research — archival search and new observations in order to identify comet activity of asteroids. This paper is based on a talk presented at VIII Bredikhin conference.
- Publication:
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INASAN Science Reports
- Pub Date:
- December 2023
- DOI:
- 10.51194/INASAN.2023.8.6.009
- Bibcode:
- 2023INASR...8..302B
- Keywords:
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- Solar system;
- asteroids;
- comets;
- cometary activity;
- active asteroids;
- candidates for active asteroids