Adrein,
For the measurements, sure somebody has to do it (it is certainly more complex than the more usual ground-based asteroid or even comet observations), but for orbit determination, if there are enough observations, why should it be difficult, while the MPC is able to deal with a far larger number of minor planets?
my experience is that with these extremely short arcs you'll often need manual interefence to make the solution converge. For instance you would fix e to 1 but also i to e.g. 142¡ã for the Kreutz group or 72¡ã for the Meyer group, etc. to nudge the solution in the correct direction. And even then you might need to do several attempts. It takes time and I do not know if this can be automated.
Maik
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