Design Parameters and Efficiency of a Space System for Warning about Small Celestial Bodies Approaching the Earth along Collision Trajectories
Protecting the Earth against Collisions with Asteroids and Comet Nuclei, In: A. M. Finkelstein, W. F. Huebner, V. A. Shor (Eds) Proceedings of the International Conference “Asteroid-Comet Hazard-2009”, StP: Nauka, 369–375 (2010)
Keywords: Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), Near Earth Objects (NEOs), warning about small selestial bodies, collision trajectories, space-based system, automatic near-Earth space surveillance, hazardous celestial body (HCB), synchronous-basic position measurements, space telescopes (ST), the sunward direction, small orbit arc, barrier zone (BZ) of reliable detection of HCB, simulation modeling capture of a HCB by ST, Apophis, aphelion distances, semi-major orbit axes, Mars, Jupiter, Pluto
About the paper Full textAbstract
The space-based system would operate in two modes: