FindPOTATOs: Minor Planet Observation Linking Software by C. R. Nugent, Nicole J. Tan, James M. Bauer

“…For minor planet observations to be archived and used by the scientific community, observations of individual objects must be linked together into groups called tracklets. …”
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People Love to Name Things: Current Trends in Naming Minor Planets by Jan Holeš

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An Objective Classification Scheme for Solar-System Bodies Based on Surface Gravity by Dimitris M. Christodoulou, Silas G. T. Laycock, Demosthenes Kazanas

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Reprocessing the NEAT Data Set: Preliminary Results by C. R. Nugent, J. M. Bauer, O. Benitez, M. Blain, N. D’Souza, S. Garimella, M. Goldwater, Y. Kim, H. C. G. Larsen, T. Linder, K. Mackowiak, Z. McGinnis, E. Pan, C. C. Pedersen, P. Sadhwani, F. Spoto, N. J. Tan, P. Vereš, C. Xue

“…This work is the first large-scale reprocessing of images from an asteroid discovery survey in which thousands of archived images are recalibrated and searched for minor planets, and the resulting observations are reported to the Minor Planet Center. …”
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A Pan-STARRS Search for Distant Planets: Part 1 by Matthew J. Holman, Kevin J. Napier, Matthew J. Payne, Jacob A. Kurlander

“…We identified 692 solar system objects (109 of which are not yet listed in the Minor Planet Center’s database), including 642 trans-Neptunian objects, 23 of which are dwarf planets. …”
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Gauss-Radau Small-body Simulator (GRSS): An Open-source Library for Planetary Defense by Rahil Makadia, Davide Farnocchia, Steven R. Chesley, Siegfried Eggl

“…GRSS is an end-to-end, open-source software tool that begins with optical observations obtained from the Minor Planet Center and Gaia spacecraft, as well as radar observations from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and ends with reliable predictions about the trajectory of a small body in the solar system. …”
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A Dormant Captured Oort Cloud Comet Awakens: (18916) 2000 OG44 by Colin Orion Chandler, William J. Oldroyd, Chadwick A. Trujillo, Dmitrii E. Vavilov, William A. Burris

“…We report the discovery of activity emanating from (18916) 2000 OG _44 (alternately designated 1977 SD), a minor planet previously reported to be both an extinct comet and an asteroid on a cometary orbit. …”
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Predictions of the LSST Solar System Yield: Discovery Rates and Characterizations of Centaurs by Joseph Murtagh, Megan E. Schwamb, Stephanie R. Merritt, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Jacob A. Kurlander, Samuel Cornwall, Mario Jurić, Grigori Fedorets, Matthew J. Holman, Siegfried Eggl, David Nesvorný, Kathryn Volk, R. Lynne Jones, Peter Yoachim, Joachim Moeyens, Jeremy Kubica, Drew Oldag, Maxine West, Colin Orion Chandler

“…Using the survey simulator Sorcha , we predict a roughly 7-fold increase in Centaurs in the Minor Planet Center (MPC) database, reaching ∼1200–2000 (dependent on definition) by the end of the survey—about 50% of which are expected within the first 2 yr. …”
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Sorcha: Optimized Solar System Ephemeris Generation by Matthew J. Holman, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Megan E. Schwamb, Mario Jurić, Drew Oldag, Maxine West, Kevin J. Napier, Stephanie R. Merritt, Grigori Fedorets, Samuel Cornwall, Jacob A. Kurlander, Siegfried Eggl, Jeremy Kubica, Kathleen Kiker, Joseph Murtagh, Shantanu P. Naidu, Colin Orion Chandler

“…Over the 10 yr survey, the LSST is expected to collect roughly a billion observations of minor planets. The task of a solar system survey simulator is to take a set of input objects (described by orbits and physical properties) and determine what a real or hypothetical survey would have discovered. …”
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An Automated Occultation Network for Gravitational Mapping of the Trans-Neptunian Solar System by Daniel C. H. Gomes, Gary M. Bernstein

“…We explore the potential of an array of ${ \mathcal O }(100)$ small fixed telescopes, aligned along a meridian and automated to measure millions of occultations of Gaia stars by minor planets, to constrain gravitational signatures from a “Planet X” mass in the outer solar system. …”
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