kerry@ctvax (12/31/85)
What exactly are Apollo-Amor objects?
wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) (01/08/86)
In article <59100001@ctvax> kerry@ctvax writes: >What exactly are Apollo-Amor objects? I am not sure what Amor objects are but I know that Apollo asteroids are "Earth-crossers", i.e., asteroids whose orbit crosses that of Earth. Finding one is considered a big coup by asteriod hunters. I myself was a co-discoverer of one back in 1976 as a byproduct of my thesis survey of faint galaxies on the Palomar 48" Schmidt. I know of people who could answer this question in "loving detail" but unfortunately none of them are on the net (or at least are active on the net). I was taught what little I know about asteroid hunting by some members of Glo Helin and Gene Schumacher's group at Palomar. They conduct systematic surveys looking for such objects. -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,philabs,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls