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T1  - Earth’s Minimoons : Opportunities for Science and Technology 
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UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10138/235501 
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A1  - Jedicke, Robert; Bolin, Bryce T:; Bottke, William F.; Chyba, Monique; Fedorets, Grigori; Granvik, Mikael Matias Sebastian; Jones, R. Lynne; Urrutxua, Hodei 
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Y1  - 2018 
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AB  - Twelve years ago the Catalina Sky Survey discovered Earth's first known natural geocentric object other than the Moon, a few-meter diameter asteroid designated 2006 RH120. Despite significant improvements in ground-based telescope and detector technology in the past decade the asteroid surveys have not discovered another temporarily-captured orbiter (TCO; colloquially known as minimoons) but the all-sky fireball system operated in the Czech Republic as part of the European Fireball Network detec... 
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KW  - 114 Physical sciences; minimoon; asteroid; NEO; ISRU; dynamics; RESTRICTED 3-BODY PROBLEM; MOON SYSTEM; VELOCITY DISTRIBUTION; SATELLITE CAPTURE; ASTEROIDS; OBJECTS; POPULATION; JUPITER; COMETS; ORBIT 
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