Asteroid 1950 DA's Encounter with Earth in 2880: Physical Limits of Collision Probability Prediction
@article{Giorgini2002Asteroid1D, title={Asteroid 1950 DA's Encounter with Earth in 2880: Physical Limits of Collision Probability Prediction}, author={Jon D. Giorgini and Steven Jeffrey Ostro and Lance A. M. Benner and Paul W. Chodas and Steven R. Chesley and Raymond Scott Hudson and Michael C. Nolan and Arnold Richard Klemola and Erland Myles Standish and Raymond F. Jurgens and Richard Rose and Alan Bieler Chamberlin and Donald Keith Yeomans and Jean-Luc Margot}, journal={Science}, year={2002}, volume={296}, pages={132 - 136} }
Integration of the orbit of asteroid (29075) 1950 DA, which is based on radar and optical measurements spanning 51 years, reveals a 20-minute interval in March 2880 when there could be a nonnegligible probability of the 1-kilometer object colliding with Earth. Trajectory knowledge remains accurate until then because of extensive astrometric data, an inclined orbit geometry that reduces in-plane perturbations, and an orbit uncertainty space modulated by gravitational resonance. The approach…
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