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The digest2 NEO Classification Code
Sonia Keys, Peter Vereš, Matthew J. Payne +6
We describe the digest2 software package, a fast, short-arc orbit classifier for small Solar System bodies. The digest2 algorithm has been serving the community for more than 13 ye…
New Jupiter Satellites and Moon-Moon Collisions
Scott Sheppard, Gareth Williams, David Tholen +7
We report the discovery of 12 new satellites of Jupiter, giving Jupiter 79 known satellites. The new finds are between 23rd-24th mag in the r-band and 1-3 km in diameter assuming d…
Unconfirmed Near-Earth Objects
Peter Vereš, Matthew J. Payne, Matthew J. Holman +4
We studied the Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) candidates posted on the Minor Planet Center's Near-Earth Object Confirmation Page (NEOCP) between years 2013 and 2016. Out of more than 17…
Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites
T. Montmerle, P. Benvenuti, Sze-leung Cheung +9
While one of the IAU's missions is to "serve as the internationally recognized authority for assigning designations to celestial bodies and surface features on them", the participa…
Alternate Science Investigations for the Kepler Spacecraft: Precision Rotation Periods and Shapes of Near-Earth Asteroids
Martin Elvis, José Luis Galache, Gareth V. Williams
We propose to use a modest fraction of the re-purposed Kepler mission time and apertures to greatly increase the quantity and quality of our knowledge of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs…
The Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System
Larry Denneau, Robert Jedicke, Tommy Grav +41
We describe the Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System (MOPS), a modern software package that produces automatic asteroid discoveries and identifications from catalogs of trans…