Published September 7, 2014 | Version v1
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Gaia contribution to the dynamics of Solar System Objects

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The ESA astrometric mission Gaia has been launched in December 2013. It is currently in its commissioning phase, with the first scientific data expected to be downloaded in June 2014. Gaia has the capability to observe, in addition to about one billion of stars, a large number of solar system objects (SSO) [1]. The satellite and telescope will continuously scan the sky during 5 years, providing high precision astrometry and photometry for about 300,000 asteroids (and several tens of planetary satellites and comets), as well as modest imaging for a fraction of them. The nominal limiting magnitude is expected to be V

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https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03735337
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urn:oai:HAL:hal-03735337v1