日本地球惑星科学連合2018年大会

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[P-PS03] 太陽系小天体研究:現状の理解と将来の展望

2018年5月23日(水) 17:15 〜 18:30 ポスター会場 (幕張メッセ国際展示場 7ホール)

コンビーナ:石黒 正晃(ソウル大学物理天文学科)、中本 泰史(東京工業大学)、荒川 政彦(神戸大学大学院理学研究科、共同)、安部 正真(宇宙航空研究開発機構宇宙科学研究所)

[PPS03-P24] A Simulation of Mass Determination of Asteroid (469219) 2016 HO3

*Weitong Jin1Fei Li1,2Jianguo Yan1Xuan Yang1Mao Ye1 (1.State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China、2.Chinese Antarctic Center of Surveying and Mapping, Wuhan University, China)

キーワード:Asteroid (469219) 2016 HO3, mass determination, Chinese asteroid mission, radio tracking mode, simulation

An asteroid is an effective indicator of the origin of our primitive solar system and life. The asteroid (469219) 2016 HO3, as the most stable quasi-satellite of Earth for future centuries, is a scientific interesting object due to its special orbit. 2016 HO3 spends about half of the time closer to the Sun than Earth passing ahead of our planet, and about half of the time farther away causing it to fall behind. Its orbit is also tilted a little, causing it to bob up and then down once each year through Earth's orbital plane, resembling a game of leap frog with Earth. This body is one of the potential objects possible to be explored in the first Chinese asteroid mission in 2025. However, the mass of the asteroid, as an important parameter to estimate the bulk density for clues to its internal structure, has not been determined with a high precision so far. In this paper, several simulation cases of radio tracking mode were performed to investigate feasibility of determining its mass based on a designed reasonable trajectory. Accounting for several error sources and estimating configurations, the mass can be determined within 20% accuracy by a least-suqares fit process. This work is implemented by using our own software tools WUDOGS (Wuhan University Deep-space Orbit determination and Gravity recovery System).