Solar System Working Group

This page documents the projects being undertaken by the Solar System working group in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey . For an overview of the science that will be done with the survey, see the Solar System chapter of the Black Book. Messages can be sent to the group via it's mailing list,
sdss-solar@astro.princeton.edu.
An archive of past messages is also maintained.

Asteroid taxonomy

In order to tie SDSS asteroid taxonomy to existing systems, we are undertaking a program to observe a sample of well studied asteroids. This is being coordinated via this list.

SDSS Moving Object Catalog

A moving object catalog is now one of the SDSS Science Data Products.


Maintained by trq@astro.washington.edu