3. Results

The three stage filtering procedure to propose attributions has been regularly used by our group since March 1999 and has resulted so far in 1,626 attributions accepted and published by the MPC. In this section we discuss the procedure for selecting, among the attributions confirmed by least squares fit, the ones to be submitted to the MPC, and present an analysis of the submissions and publications until May 2000. Table 2 contains a summary of all of the object identifications submitted by our group since March 1999 and of those published by the MPC.

 

 

Table 2: Identifications results in one year of operation

Monthly update		Attributions	Atts. to atts.	Orbit Ids.	Atts. to orb-ids.
Mar 2, 1999	Submitted	90	0	100	8
	Published	67	0	94	8
Apr 2, 1999	Submitted	115	0	27	7
	Published	77	0	21	6
May 4, 1999	Submitted	498	0	19	7
	Published	321	0	16	6
Aug 31, 1999	Submitted	91	3	13	2
	Published	55	2	9	1
Sep 28, 1999	Submitted	82	0	42	11
	Published	68	0	42	11
Oct 26, 1999	Submitted	42	3	6	0
	Published	15	2	5	0
Nov 23, 1999	Submitted	80	3	25	7
	Published	37	3	24	7
Dec 22, 1999	Submitted	58	6	11	7
	Published	55	6	10	7
Jan 24, 2000	Submitted	109	16	192	46
	Published	108	16	183	46
Feb 22, 2000	Submitted	125	27	90	18
	Published	112	24	86	18
Mar 20, 2000	Submitted	41	7	147	23
	Published	39	7	143	22
Apr 18, 2000	Submitted	232	27	135	25
	Published	212	23	131	24
May 23, 2000	Submitted	183	32	142	17
	Published	178	26	138	17
TOTAL	Submitted	1746	124	949	178
	Published	1344	109	902	173