Catalogue of the Solar System Small Bodies Orbital Evolution
Catalogue of the Solar System Small Bodies Orbital Evolution

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04.03.2010
The page for viewing project news has been added.
04.03.2010
Feature of asteroids group selection has been added at page of catalogue update history. Now it is also has the information about number of approaching asteroids.
26.02.2010
The page for viewing histogram has been added. It shows selected parameter distribution of asteroids and comets.
26.02.2010
Histogram of the asteroid catalogue update has been added.
17.02.2010
The page for viewing two-dimensional diagrams has been added. It shows two selected parameters distribution of asteroids and comets.
16.02.2010
Approaches are now displayed on the graphs of asteroids and comets orbit evolution.
16.02.2010
Information about the latest project news has been added to the homepage.
15.02.2010
Website interface has been improved for easy browsing.
11.02.2010
Update of asteroids catalogue has been performed. 429 new objects have been added. Information about already known objects has been updated. The number of approaches to inner planets has increased by 69. The number of approaches to the Earth has increased by 55.
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The space of the Solar system, besides the Sun, major planets and their satellites, is occupied by various bodies including both the smallest particles with a size equal to micron and multikilometer big asteroids and comets. Asteroids of Apollo, Amor and Aten groups are considered to be the most important in asteroids motion research because their orbits come into contact with the Earth's orbit or cross it and, in case of close approaches to the Earth, there is a danger of collision. Studying of short-period comets motion is also of great importance.

Nowadays hundreds of new asteroids of Apollo, Amor and Aten groups and some of short-period comets are annually discovered. Some of the discovered objects can closely approach the major planets of the Solar system, including the Earth. Information about already discovered objects is constantly updated.

Cataloguing of small bodies of the Solar system is the important stage in «asteroid risk» problem solution. Catalogues of asteroids and comets contain valuable information on distribution of small bodies in the Solar system and their orbits elements evolution.

The website contains the catalogue of orbital evolution of small bodies of the Solar system. It contains information about asteroids of Apollo, Amor, Aten groups1 and short-period comets2, about their orbital evolution and close approaches to major planets. This information can be helpful for motion studying of the potentially dangerous objects and allows to estimate the risk of their possible collision with our planet in future and timely take measures to prevent catastrophic consequences.

Current number of asteroids in the database is 6 581, with 911 objects approaching to inner planets at a distance less than 0.01 astronomical units for the time period between 1800 and 2204, including 670 objects approaching to the Earth. Number of comets is 197.

This project was supported by the Federal Agency of Education (project codes RNP 2.1.1.1689, RNP 2.1.1.745).

Details...

1. Zausaev A.F., Abramov V.V., Denisov S.S. Catalogue of orbital evolution of asteroids approaching to the Earth between 1800 and 2204. – M.: Mashinostroenie – 1, 2007. – 608 p. ISBN 978-5-94275-373-3.

2. Zausaev A.F., Zausaev A.A. Catalogue of orbital evolution of short-period comets between 1800 and 2204. – M.: Mashinostroenie – 1, 2007. – 410 p. ISBN 978-5-94275-372-6.

This project was supported by the Federal Agency of Education (project codes RNP 2.1.1.1689, RNP 2.1.1.745).
Samara State Technical University
Applied Mathematics and Information Science Department
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