Bundle Information
IDENTIFIER urn:nasa:pds:smallbodiesoccultations::4.0
NAME Small Bodies Occultations V4.0
TYPE Archive
DESCRIPTION This data set is intended to include all reported timings of observed asteroid, comet nucleus, planet, and planetary satellite occultation events made by observers from around the world. Included are occultation axes derived from those timings, and (wherever possible) volume-equivalent diameters derived from fitting to shape models. This version contains 9729 occultations. It is complete through to June 2023, with partial observations up until December 2023.
SEARCH/ACCESS DATA Small Bodies Occultations Archive Online
   
Citation
DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI) 10.26033/ehqs-jp27
AUTHOR LIST Herald, D., Gault, D., Carlson, N., Frappa, E., Giacchini, B., Guhl, K., Hayamizu, T., Kerr, S., and Moore, J.
EDITOR LIST
PUBLICATION YEAR 2024
DESCRIPTION This data set is intended to include all reported timings of observed asteroid, comet nucleus, planet, and planetary satellite occultation events made by observers from around the world. Included are occultation axes derived from those timings, and (wherever possible) volume-equivalent diameters derived from fitting to shape models. This version contains 9729 occultations. It is complete through to June 2023, with partial observations up until December 2023.
   
Context
START DATE TIME 1911-08-14T12:00:00.000Z
STOP DATE TIME 2024-01-31T12:00:00.000Z
LOCAL MEAN SOLAR TIME
LOCAL TRUE SOLAR TIME
SOLAR LONGITUDE
PRIMARY RESULT PURPOSE SCIENCE
PRIMARY RESULT PROCESSING LEVEL Derived
PRIMARY RESULT DESCRIPTION
PRIMARY RESULT WAVELENGTH RANGE Visible
Visible
Visible
PRIMARY RESULT DOMAIN
PRIMARY RESULT DISCIPLINE NAME Small Bodies
Ring-Moon Systems
Small Bodies
INVESTIGATION NO SPECIFIC INVESTIGATION
OBSERVING SYSTEM
OBSERVING SYSTEM COMPONENT Various Ground-Based Telescopes
Various Ground-Based Detectors
TARGET MULTIPLE ASTEROIDS
MULTIPLE SATELLITES
MULTIPLE PLANETS
MULTIPLE DWARF PLANETS
MULTIPLE COMETS
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Collections
DATA COLLECTION Small Bodies Occultations V4.0
DOCUMENT COLLECTION Small Bodies Occultations V4.0