A global network of observers and telescopes work together to track near-Earth objects and protect our planet. China plays a key role in this effort. Join our reporter Sun Ye in Jiangsu Province, where a critical telescope has discovered the largest number of near-Earth asteroids in the country and provides over 95 percent of China's observational data in the field. (CGTN)
In a study published in The Astronomical Journal, ZHANG Yigong and Prof. WANG Jiancheng from Yunnan Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and their collaborators, proposed a new method to improve the precision of astrometric observation for near-Earth objects (NEOs).
Chinese researchers have proposed a new method to precisely measure the astrometric positions of small near-Earth objects (NEOs), according to a recent research article published in The Astronomical Journal.
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