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On the Accuracy of CCD and Photographic Observations of Asteroids and Their Current Orbit Determinations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

O. P. Bykov*
Affiliation:
Pulkovo Observatory

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An application of the Classical Laplacian Method and new Pulkovo AMP-method for current asteroid orbit determinations is given. The CERES software package created at the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy (Russia) was applied to calculate (O-C)-differences for 200 numbered minor planets observed irregularly and quasisimultaneously in 1993 by CCD as well as by photographic techniques at 25 observatories (ESO, SERGA, Kitt Peak etc.). The accuracy of the observations was estimated by means of the standard error of the average (O-C) differences for each type of observation obtained by each telescope. As a whole the CCD-observations of the numbered minor planets are considerably more precise in comparison to the photographic ones. Some results are given in Table 1.

Type
Section II — Poster Papers
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1995 

References

Bykov, O. P. 1989 Opredelenie orbit nebesnikh tel pryamimi metodami, Problemi postroenia koordinatnikh sistem v astronomii, GAO, Leningrad, p. 328.Google Scholar