ASTEROID

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ASTEROID
Asteroid Shawn Hermann
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Outline

• How to find asteroids
• How to measure asteroids
• How to report asteroids
• Type of asteroids
• Looking at asteroids

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How to find
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How to Measure
Pinpoint software http//pinpoint.dc3.com
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How to report
Minor Planet Center http//www.minorplanetcenter.n
et/iau/mpc.html
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Types of Asteroids
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Looking at Asteroids
Impact Crater Event http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I
mpact_event Lowell Observatory
Near-Earth-Object Search (LONEOS) http//en.wikipe
dia.org/wiki/Lowell_Observatory_Near-Earth-Object_
Search Aten 1999 HF1 http//en.wikipedia.org/wi
ki/List_of_Aten_asteroid_records Comet
275P/Hermann 10239 Hermann http//en.wikipedia.o
rg/wiki/10239_Hermann http//ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbd
b.cgi?sstr10239orb1cov0/pl-pl/