Published September 19, 2012 | Version v1
Conference paper

Detection of inner Solar System Trojan Asteroids by Gaia

Description

The Gaia satellite, planned for launch by the European Space Agency (ESA) in 2013, is the next generation astrometry mission following Hipparcos. While mapping the whole sky, the Gaia space mission is expected to discover thousands of Solar System Objects. These will include Near-Earth Asteroids and objects at Solar elongations as low as 45 degrees, which are difficult to observe with ground-based telescopes. We present the results of simulations for the detection of Trojan asteroids in the orbits of Earth and Mars by Gaia.

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URL
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00836743
URN
urn:oai:HAL:hal-00836743v1

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UNICA