• DOI:10.1088/1538-3873/129/973/034402
Corpus ID: 43606524

Small near-Earth asteroids in the Palomar Transient Factory survey: A real-time streak-detection system

@article{Waszczak2016SmallNA,
  title={Small near-Earth asteroids in the Palomar Transient Factory survey: A real-time streak-detection system},
  author={A. Waszczak and T. Prince and R. Laher and F. Masci and B. Bue and U. Rebbapragada and T. Barlow and J. Surace and G. Helou and S. Kulkarni},
  journal={arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics},
  year={2016}
}

• A. Waszczak, T. Prince, +7 authors S. Kulkarni
• Published 2016
• Environmental Science, Physics
• arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) in the 1-100 meter size range are estimated to be $\sim$1,000 times more numerous than the $\sim$15,000 currently-catalogued NEAs, most of which are in the 0.5-10 kilometer size range. Impacts from 10-100 meter size NEAs are not statistically life-threatening but may cause significant regional damage, while 1-10 meter size NEAs with low velocities relative to Earth are compelling targets for space missions. We describe the implementation and initial results of a real… Expand

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