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AFOSR |
(US) Air Force Office of Scientific Research |
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AU |
Astronomical Unit (about 150 million kilometres) |
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CBAT |
Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams |
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CCD |
Charge Coupled Device (sensor chip used in cameras) |
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CfA |
Center for Astrophysics (at Smithsonian Harvard) |
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CSS |
Catalina Sky Survey (LPL / University of Arizona) |
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Dec |
Declination |
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DSN |
Deep Space Network (NASA tracking stations) |
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ESA |
European Space Agency |
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FMO |
Fast Moving Object |
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GEO |
GEosynchronous Orbit |
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GEODSS |
Ground based Electro Optical Deep Space Surveillance (USAF) |
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HA |
Hour Angle |
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IAU |
International Astronomical Union |
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IAUC |
IAU Circulars |
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IPD |
InterPlanetary Dust |
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IPS |
IPS Radio and Space Services (Australian Government) |
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JPL |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA) |
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kT |
kiloton (TNT energy equivalent ~ 4.2 million million Joule) |
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K/T |
Cretaceous-Tertiary (geological time boundary ~ 65 millions years ago) |
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LEO |
Low Earth Orbit |
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LINEAR |
LIncoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (Lincoln Laboratory MIT) |
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LONEOS |
Lowell Observatory Near Earth Object Survey (Flagstaff, Arizona) |
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LPL |
Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (University of Arizona) |
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LSO |
Learmonth Solar Observatory |
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LST |
Local Sidereal Time |
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LT |
Local Time |
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MIT |
Massachussets Institute of Technology |
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MPC |
Minor Planet Center (at Smithsonian Harvard Center for Astrophysics) |
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MPEC |
Minor Planet Electronic Circulars |
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NASA |
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA) |
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NEA |
Near Earth Asteroid |
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NEAR |
Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NASA spacecraft - first to land on an asteroid) |
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NEAT |
Near Earth Asteroid Tracking (JPL - Pasadena) |
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NEO |
Near Earth Object |
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NEODyS |
Near Earth Objects Dynamic Site (Italy) |
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PHA |
Potentially Hazardous Asteroid |
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RA |
Right Ascension |
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SNC |
Shergottites, Nehklites & Chassignittes (meteorites believed to be from Mars) |
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USAF |
United States (of America) Air Force |
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VLA |
Very Large Array (Radiotelescope, New Mexico) |
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UT |
Universal Time |
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UTC |
Coordinated Universal Time |
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