Astrophysical: Minor planets

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    Near Earth Asteroids positions (Birlan+, 2010)
    The EURONEAR_Release1 catalog contains 1544 positions of 155 Near-Earth Asteroids, obtained between 2006 and 2008. (2 data files).
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    Near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon: Characterization of its orbit, spin state, and thermophysical parameters
    Context. The near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon is an intriguing object: its perihelion is at only 0.14 au and is associated with the Geminid meteor stream...
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    Near-Earth asteroids spectroscopic survey at Isaac Newton Telescope
    Context. The population of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) shows a large variety of objects in terms of physical and dynamical properties. They are subject to...
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    Near-infrared colors of minor planets recovered from VISTA-VHS survey (MOVIS)
    Context. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) provide information about the surface composition of about 100 000...
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    Near-infrared spectroscopy of 1999 JU3, the target of the Hayabusa 2 mission
    Context. Primitive asteroids contain complex organic material and ices relevant to the origin of life on Earth. These types of asteroids are the target of...
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    Near-infrared spectroscopy of the nucleus of comet 124P/Mrkos
    We report near-infrared (0.9-2.3 mu m) spectral observations of the bare nucleus of comet 124P/Mrkos taken on two different nights using the Near Infrared...
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    Near-ultraviolet absorption distribution of primitive asteroids from photometric surveys: II. Collisional families
    Context. Primitive asteroids consisting of mainly phyllosilicates and opaque minerals have great variation at near-ultraviolet (NUV) wavelengths (0.35–0.5 μm)...
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    Near-ultraviolet absorption distribution of primitive asteroids from spectrophotometric surveys. I. Radial distribution
    Context. Hydrated minerals, such as phyllosilicates, on asteroids can provide constraints on the temperature or compositional distribution of the early Solar...
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    Near-ultraviolet to visible spectroscopy of the Themis and Polana-Eulalia complex families
    Context. Spectrophotometry data of asteroids obtained in the 1980s showed that there are large variations in their near-ultraviolet (NUV) reflectance spectra...