LSST: Comprehensive NEO Detection, Characterization, and Orbits — mentioned by throwaway_yy2Di

Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:00:08 GMT

I think 2009 FD is the worrying one. It's incredibly dark, with a surface albedo of just 0.01. That means optical surveys would struggle to find it in deep space, even when it's half a kilometer wide, even with [0] the LSST telescope in the 2020's. This is why some people want space-based infrared telescopes for NEO surveys [1]. [0] http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701506 [1] http://neocam.ipac.caltech.edu/page/whyinfrared

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LSST: Comprehensive NEO Detection, Characterization, and Orbits — mentioned by throwaway_yy2Di