The light curve of the outburst of Comet P/Metcalf-Brewington (1991 I) is investigated. The parameters of the light curve are quite uncertain as it may be...
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PublicationThe 1991 outburst of Comet P/Metcalf-Brewington: A study of the light curve
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PublicationThe 99942 Apophis observational campaign at the Canary Islands observatories during its 2021 close approach: preliminary results
Potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) 99942 Apophis, with a diameter 380-393 m (Licandro et al. 2016), came to its 2021 close approach on March 6, 2021, at 01:06...
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PublicationThe 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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PublicationThe 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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PublicationThe 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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PublicationThe 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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PublicationThe 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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PublicationThe 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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NewsThe 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...