![]() The number of asteroid discoveries and observations by LSST depends heavily on the survey cadence of LSST, which is under discussion as of late 2021. Currently expected to commence its nominal decade of operations in 2024, LSST is anticipated to discover 5.5 million new small Solar System objects ( LSST Science Collaboration 2009, Chapter 5) from close-approaching near-Earth asteroids and objects inside Earth’s orbit all the way to the distant realms of the transneptunian object population. One of four major science goals for LSST will be the inventory of the Solar System ( Jones et al., 2009 Schwamb et al., 2018). The next generation of synoptic sky surveys is headed by the Vera Rubin Observatory’s Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST Ivezić et al., 2019), going two magnitudes deeper compared to SDSS. These results have been essential in mapping the spectral distribution of asteroids in the main belt, opening insights to the mechanisms sculpting the Solar System (e.g., Raymond and Nesvorný, 2021, and references therein). DeMeo and Carry (2013) were able to classify tens of thousands of asteroids from the SDSS Moving Object Survey database ( Ivezić et al., 2002) into the Bus-DeMeo taxonomy, and recently Sergeyev and Carry (2021) performed probabilistic classifications for almost 400,000 asteroids in the SDSS data. ![]() In particular, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS, York et al., 2000), by-design a survey for galaxies, has been a valuable resource for asteroid characterization. In particular, sky surveys provide a plentitude of broad-band spectrophotometric data of small Solar System bodies, despite their main purpose often being in other fields of astronomy. However, the corpus of data required for physical characterization of asteroids can be and has been greatly amended by less accurate albeit far more abundant multi-filter photometric observations. Therefore, up-to-date spectroscopy is only available for some thousands of asteroids out of around a million currently known. Its use is hindered by the requirements of time-consuming dedicated observations. Lufthansa Award-for excellence in German studiesġst prize: Taylor Barton 2006, EECS, Arlington, MA Zuzana Trnovcova 2009, EECS, Bratislava, SlovakiaĢnd prize: Andrew Guerra 2006, foreign languages and literature, Bremerton, WA Alan Skaggs G, mechanical engineering, Southlake, TXģrd prize: Joseph Dieguez 2008, mechanical engineering, College Point, NY Petra Stoyanof 2007, literature, San Francisco, CAĪ version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on J(download PDF).Spectroscopy is the primary technique for the precise physical characterization of asteroids. Mika Tomczak 2006, mechanical engineering, Maplewood, NJ ![]() Jacqueline Greene 2007, materials science and engineering, Walnut, CA Louise Glam 2006, materials science and engineering, Potmac, MD Francesca DeMeo 2006, physics and EARS, Boxford, MA Laurie Burns 2006, foreign languages and literature, Concord, MA Jorge Alvarado 2006, foreign languages and literature, Pharr, TX January Scholars in France-for excellence in the French language Award for Excellence in Foreign Languages and Literature-to an undergraduate who best reflects the section's goals for achieving proficiency in a foreign language, cultural understanding and enthusiasm for foreign language learningġst prize: Alice Macdonald 2008, biological engineering division, Ann Arbor, MIĢnd prize: Phi Ho 2008, Sloan School of Management, New Iberia, LAģrd prize: Patrick Varilly 2006, physics, San Jose, Costa Rica
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