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Yarkovsky detection opportunities. I. Solitary asteroids

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2005

Abstract

We show that, over the next two decades, the current radar and optical astrometric technology is adequate to allow detection of the Yarkovsky effect acting on at least two dozen NEAs from a variety of orbital regimes and with effective diameters ranging from about ten meters to several kilometers.