Asteroids observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Zeljko Ivezic; M. Juric; Robert H. Lupton; S. Tabachnik; T. Quinn

doi:10.1117/12.457304

24 December 2002 Asteroids Observed by The Sloan Digital Survey

Zeljko Ivezic, M. Juric, Robert H. Lupton, S. Tabachnik, T. Quinn

Proceedings Volume 4836, Survey and Other Telescope Technologies and Discoveries; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.457304
Event: Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawai'i, United States

Abstract

We announce the first public release of the SDSS Moving Object Catalog, with SDSS observations for 58,117 asteroids. The catalog lists astrometric and photometric data for moving objects observed prior to Dec 15, 2001, and also includes orbital elements for 10,592 previously known objects, and confirm that asteroid dynamical families, defined as clusters in orbital parameter space, also strongly segregate in color space. Their distinctive optical colors indicate that the variations in chemical composition within a family are much smaller than the compositional differences between families, and strongly support earlier suggestions that asteroids belonging to a particular family have a common origin.

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Zeljko Ivezic, M. Juric, Robert H. Lupton, S. Tabachnik, and T. Quinn "Asteroids Observed by The Sloan Digital Survey", Proc. SPIE 4836, Survey and Other Telescope Technologies and Discoveries, (24 December 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.457304

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