Detecting Impact Orbits of Asteroids by Means of Representation of the Initial Confidence Region in the Form of a Sequence of Ellipsoidal Hypersurfaces

A method for detection of impact orbits of near-Earth asteroids is considered. The method uses splitting of initial confidence region into a sequence of ellipsoidal hypersurfaces corresponding to preset values of the confidence coefficient. The method uses parametric equations of confidence ellipsoi...

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Published inRussian physics journal Vol. 59; no. 10; pp. 1686 - 1692
Main Author Baturin, A. P.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer US 01.02.2017
Springer
Springer Nature B.V
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Asteroid detection
Asteroids
Condensed Matter Physics
Earth orbits
Geometry
Hadrons
Heavy Ions
Lasers
Mathematical and Computational Physics
Near-Earth Objects
Nuclear Physics
Optical Devices
Optics
Parametric equations
Photonics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Theoretical
ellipsoidal hypersurface
impact orbits
confidence coefficient
asteroids
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Summary:A method for detection of impact orbits of near-Earth asteroids is considered. The method uses splitting of initial confidence region into a sequence of ellipsoidal hypersurfaces corresponding to preset values of the confidence coefficient. The method uses parametric equations of confidence ellipsoid in the six-dimensional phase space. The method is tested for detecting impact orbits of potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids 1994 WR12 and 2015 RN35 posing an impact threat to the Earth.
ISSN:1064-8887
1573-9228
DOI:10.1007/s11182-017-0961-6