Astrophysical: Asteroids

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    Low Perihelion Near-Earth Asteroids
    We present initial results from a study of a sample of low-perihelion near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) using the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on NASA’s Spitzer Space...
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    Main belt asteroids taxonomical information from dark energy survey data
    While proper orbital elements are currently available for more than 1 million asteroids, taxonomical information is still lagging behind. Surveys like SDSS-MOC4...
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    Mega-Archive and the EURONEAR tools for data mining world astronomical images
    The world astronomical image archives offer huge opportunities to time-domain astronomy sciences and other hot topics such as space defense, and astronomical...
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    Mineralogical analysis of 14 PHAs from ViNOS data
    Potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are objects that can have close encounters with Earth and are significantly large to cause significant regional damage in...
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    Mineralogical characterization of A-type asteroid (1951) Lick
    We have obtained visible and near-infrared reflectance spectra of asteroid (1951) Lick. According to its spectral characteristics in the visible region, this...
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    Mini-moons from horseshoes: A physical characterization of 2022 NX<SUB>1</SUB> with OSIRIS at the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias
    Context. The near-Earth orbital space is shared by natural objects and space debris that can be temporarily captured in geocentric orbits. Short-term natural...
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    Mining the ESO WFI and INT WFC archives for known Near Earth Asteroids. Mega-Precovery software
    The ESO/MPG WFI and the INT WFC wide field archives comprising 330 000 images were mined to search for serendipitous encounters of known Near Earth Asteroids...
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    Monitoring of asteroids in cometary orbits and activated asteroids through archival images and new observations
    Context. Transitional objects are minor bodies that share some characteristics with asteroids and others with comets. These objects include asteroids in...
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    More than 160 near Earth asteroids observed in the EURONEAR network
    Context. The EUROpean Near Earth Asteroid Research (EURONEAR) is a network which envisions to bring some European contributions into the general context traced...