25 years of asteroid investigations by Kharkiv asteroid group

Abstract

In the middle of the 1970s physical investigations of asteroids became quite active in the USA and partly in Europe (Italy, Austria, Sweden). It was evident that asteroids are the bodies of great interest first of all from the point of view of cosmogonic problems of the Solar System. That was the principal reason for the beginning of asteroid studies at our Institute (Astronomical Observatory, at that time). The most important results of asteroid study obtained by our group during the last 25 years are presented.