Астероид на прицеле - астрономы взялись за малые тела. “Пулковская кооперация оптических наблюдателей”, или ПулКОН, - так называется Международный проект, к реализации которого подключился Институт астрономии Академии наук Узбекистана. За последние годы это один из самых масштабных проектов, связанных с исследованиями околоземного и ближнего космоса, осуществляемый учеными республики в содружестве с коллегами из России, Украины, Грузии, Таджикистана, Туркмении, Боливии, Испании, Италии, Германии и Китая. В работе задействовано более десятка обсерваторий.
FAINT GEO OBJECTS SEARCH AND ORBITAL ANALYSIS. Under order of the Rusian Academy of Sciences' Center on collection, processing and analysis of information on space debris operated at the Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics (KIAM) the group of the researchers developed the program of search, tracking and analysis of orbital evolution of faint objects of space debris in geostationary region (GEO) presumably appeared in events of fragmentation of some resident GEO objects.
JOINT RAS/PIMS/AIUB GEO SURVEY RESULTS. From June, 2004 until March, 2005 a number of Russian and Ukrainian astronomical observatories working within the framework of a program of the RAS on studying of near-Earth space contamination by space debris as well as Zimmerwald observatory of Astronomical Institute of the University of Bern and observatories of the PIMS network working under support of Observatory Sciences Ltd. have conducted continuous coordinated campaign for GEO region observation and processing of obtained results. During the work the tasks of search, detection and subsequent tracking of unknown GEO objects, their orbital parameters determination and orbital evolution estimation taking into account all essential perturbations have been solved.
