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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: Apollo-Amor Objects?
Message-ID: <703@astrovax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 8-Jan-86 00:05:54 EST
Article-I.D.: astrovax.703
Posted: Wed Jan  8 00:05:54 1986
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Reply-To: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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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
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