Resumen de Identification and calculation of the three-dimensional orbit of an asteroid

Vincent Pereira, Justin Millan, Emerick Martin

• Asteroids are clumps of rock, the sizes of which range from less than a kilometer to a few hundred kilometers in diameter. They are generally found in the unusually large gap between Mars and Jupiter. There are probably more than 40,000 asteroids in this gap called the �asteroid belt.� In this paper we describe our efforts in confirming the identity of an asteroid and then calculating its three-dimensional orbit around the Sun, given the six elements of orbit.