These type of objects would not give false positives...They would definitely show up as an anomalous object, but until that anomaly was matched with at lease 3 other instances of the same anomaly moving in a distinct trajectory over time, they wouldn't even be mentioned by the system. In fact, after just a few days or even a few hours, they would quickly be dropped as a possible NEO because they would not be substantiated in any other submitted images. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Tenney" <retenney@yahoo.com> To: "Astronomy in Utah" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 9:52 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Re: NEO Detection Software Idea...
One other thing. It seems like every time I'm out observing I have at least one or more meteors and/or satellites pass through the field of view. Given all the space junk up there and meteoritic infall, accounting for all of that in comparative images might also give you a bucketload of false positives...
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