Technical Papers Available Online

There’s a status report on the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan- STARRS) and studies analyzing factors and consequences of the February 2009 collision of the Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 satellites. A team with the Air Force...

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Proving a technique

AMOS presentation analyzes capabilities of image sampling methodology Air Force astrophysicist Capt. Anthony O'Dell may be offering new life to a decades-old image sampling theory for detection of Near Earth Objects by ground-based telescopes....

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Scanning the skies for NEOs

Pan-STARRS initial findings to be presented at AMOS Conference It’s still in the calibration process, but the prototype Pan-STARRS telescope and its massive 1.4-billion pixel digital camera already have detected about 100 known asteroids and two...

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