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Leader: Korado Korlevic
Members: Boris Andric, Vibor Jelic, Ranko Radonic and Krunoslav Komugovic
The NEO group has being detecting, tracking, and confirming Near Earth Objects, as well as tracking similar bodies such as regular comets or asteroids. Near Earth Objects are small bodies of the solar system whose orbits bring them close to the earth, making them potential hazards to life on earth. To reduce the hazard, these objects must be detected and their orbit parameters recorded for further observation and tracking.
.Our observation was done with a 40cm Newtonian telescope and an AP8 CCD camera. We mostly observed areas along the ecliptic, as that is where most NEO activity occurs. In the detection of asteroids we used a method known as blinking using the Gandalf software package, also developed at Visnjan Observatory. We made astrometric (positional) measurements on all detected asteroids and comets and sent them to the Minor Planet Center (MPC), where they were added to the worldwide database located there. We have discovered a new asteroid and made measurements of many asteroids and one comet.
