Sentences with phrase «occultation surveys»

These so - called occultation surveys are currently the best shot astronomers have at parsing the smallest constituents of the Kuiper Belt.

But even for those occultation surveys, discoveries are tough to come by.

«Physically, what that means is that these objects are weak,» Bianco explains — collisions in the solar system's evolution have ground them down to even smaller bits that elude detection by the occultation surveys.

Taiwan - American Occultation Survey Astronomers are using four small robotic telescopes to simultaneously scan the same patch of sky.