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Apophis Planetary Defense Campaign
We describe results of a planetary defense exercise conducted during the close approach to Earth by the near-Earth asteroid (99942) Apophis during 2020 December...
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NewsAsteroid Bennu revealed as an active object by the NASA OSIRIS-REx missionCAPTION: Composite view of particle ejection from the surface of asteroid Bennu on January 6, 2019. This image was produced by combining two exposures taken by...
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PublicationAsteroid Lightcurves from the MOA-II Survey: a pilot studyThe Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA-II) survey has performed high cadence, wide field observations of the Galactic Bulge from New Zealand since...
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PublicationAsteroid pairs: A complex pictureWe studied a sample of 93 asteroid pairs, i.e., pairs of genetically related asteroids that are on highly similar heliocentric orbits. We estimated times...
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PublicationAsteroid reflectance spectra from Gaia DR3: Near-UV in primitive asteroidsContext. In the context of charge-coupled devices (CCDs), the ultraviolet (UV) region has mostly remained unexplored after the 1990s. Gaia DR3 offers the...
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PublicationAsteroid sizes determined with thermophysical model and stellar occultationsContext. The sizes of many asteroids, especially slowly rotating, low-amplitude targets, remain poorly constrained due to selection effects. These biases limit...
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PublicationAsteroids' reflectance from Gaia DR3: Artificial reddening at near-UV wavelengthsContext. Observational and instrumental difficulties observing small bodies below 0.5 μm make this wavelength range poorly studied compared with the visible and...
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NewsAstronomers confirm a new “Trojan” asteroid that shares an orbit with MarsUsing observations made with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) a study led from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and the Universidad Complutense...
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NewsAstronomers make a significant advance in our knowledge of the asteroids nearest to the Earth, the ArjunasResearch, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias has participated has analyzed object 2023 FY3, a member of a group of asteroids which have...