Identification and calculation of the three-dimensional orbit of an asteroid

• Autores: Vincent Pereira, Justin Millan, Emerick Martin
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 51, Nº. 5, 2013, pág. 303
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Asteroids are clumps of rock, the sizes of which range from less than a kilometer to a few hundred kilometers in diameter. They are generally found in the unusually large gap between Mars and Jupiter. There are probably more than 40,000 asteroids in this gap called the �asteroid belt.� In this paper we describe our efforts in confirming the identity of an asteroid and then calculating its three-dimensional orbit around the Sun, given the six elements of orbit.