Atskaites
Project title: Complex investigations of Solar System small bodies

1. Scientific Excellence

The surfaces of the smallest planets and moons of the Solar system are covered with a large number of craters created by asteroids. Every day, Earth is bombarded with more than 100 tons of dust and millimeter-sized particles from space. About once a year, a two-meter sized asteroid hits Earth's atmosphere, often creating a bolide event as the friction of the Earth's atmosphere causes them to disintegrate - sometimes explosively. About every five-year Chelaybinsk type event take part.
During 2018 and 2019, asteroid monitoring and properties were performed at Baldone Astrophysical Observatory (BAO) on 123 nights. 2018-2019. The observations covered 755 square degrees of sky. 4,704 positions of 1,875 asteroids were measured and published in “The MINOR PLANET CIRCULARS/MINOR PLANETS AND COMETS SUPPLEMENT” (MPS)[1],  The MINOR PLANET CIRCULARS/MINOR PLANETS AND COMETS (MPC)1. In addition, 24 new asteroids were discovered in BAO. For newly asteroids discovered in Baldone that have repeatedly oppositions to Earth were computed orbits and published in “The MINOR PLANET CIRCULARS/MINOR PLANETS AND COMETS ORBIT SUPPLEMENT” (MPO)1, whose observations were insufficient to calculate good orbits have been published positions data in  MPS (see Table1.). The Baldone Observatory plans its observations mainly in areas of the sky that other observers see as less perspective, at declinations greater than 50 degrees (see Fig. 1).
Table 1.1. Newly discovered asteroids during 2018-2019 in Baldone Astrophysical Observatory

[1] https://cgi.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html.