The goal of the survey is to discover asynchronous binary asteroids among small NEAs, MCs, and inner MBAs, and to do it in a controlled way that allows to simulate selection effects and biases in the obtained sample. For that, we use the photometric technique, see our paper Photometric Survey of Binary Near-Earth Asteroids that has appeared in Icarus 181 (2006) 63-93, its reprint is available here; see also newer reports and presentations mentioned here. Another paper by Pravec, Photometric Survey of Asynchronous Binary Asteroids describing the strategy of our Survey has been published in Proceedings of the Symposium on Telescope Science (The 24th Annual Conference of the Society for Astronomical Science), B. D. Warner, D. Mais, D. A. Kenyon, J. Foote (Eds.), that is available here (46 MB), the reprint of the paper is available here (0.4 MB). A paper by Pravec and Harris, Binary Asteroid Population. 1. Angular Momentum Content, where data from this Survey were used, has appared in Icarus 190 (2007) 250-259, its reprint is available here.
People and stations taking part in the project coordinate their work through email, using their own e-group. We believe, however, that some basic information is useful to be presented also in a public web page, so we set up this page and provide useful information under links mentioned in following.
The list of asteroids targeted within the Photometric Survey for Asynchronous Binary Asteroids is given in following. Each item gives a status of the object to a given date, observatories that worked it within the Survey, and links to www pages with results summaries and/or publications.
