Astrophysical: Asteroids

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    The active centaur 2020 MK<SUB>4</SUB>
    Context. Centaurs go around the Sun between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune. Only a fraction of the known centaurs have been found to display comet-like...
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    The binary near-Earth Asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3 - An observational constraint on its orbital evolution
    Using our photometric observations taken between April 1996 and January 2013 and other published data, we derived properties of the binary near-Earth Asteroid...
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    The Castalia mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro
    We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently...
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    The descent and bouncing path of the Hayabusa2 lander MASCOT at asteroid (162173) Ryugu
    Images from the Optical Navigation Camera system (ONC) onboard the Hayabusa2 spacecraft show the MASCOT lander during its descent to the surface of asteroid...
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    The Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra)
    We present a model of the dust environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra) from images acquired during the period 2010 October-2011 January. The tails...
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    The Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS)
    The Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS) has been imaged using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope at six epochs in...
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    The Gran Telescopio Canarias will observe binary asteroid Didymos, main target of the ESA Hera space mission
    The World’s largest optical and infrared telescope will be part of this space project by observing binary asteroid Didymos in order to assess the impact that...
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    The IAC continues to track asteroid 2024 YR4 to refine the probability of impact in 2032
    The Solar System research group at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is participating in the international programme to keep a closet track of...
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    The Inhomogeneous Surface of Centaur 32522 Thereus (2001 PT13)
    Eight low-resolution near-infrared spectra (0.8-2.4 μm) of 32522 Thereus were obtained on 2002 August 28 from 0:30 to 5:30 UT, covering more than half of its...