Context. After landing on C-type asteroid Ryugu, MASCOT imaged brightly colored, submillimeter-sized inclusions in a small rock. Hayabusa2 successfully returned...
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PublicationCharacterization of the MASCOT landing area by Hayabusa2
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PublicationColor study of asteroid families within the MOVIS catalog
The aim of this work is to study the compositional diversity of asteroid families based on their near-infrared colors, using the data within the MOVIS catalog...
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PublicationCompositional study of asteroids in the Erigone collisional family using visible spectroscopy at the 10.4 m GTC
Two primitive near-Earth asteroids, (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, will be visited by a spacecraft with the aim of returning samples back to Earth. Since...
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PublicationDifferences between the Pallas collisional family and similarly sized B-type asteroids
Context. B-type asteroids constitute a peculiar spectral class within the C-complex. Previous work has pointed out the difference between the visible geometric...
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PublicationDiscovery and physical characterization as the first response to a potential asteroid collision: The case of 2023 DZ<SUB>2</SUB>
Context. Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that may evolve into impactors deserve detailed threat assessment studies. Early physical characterization of a would-be...
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PublicationDiscovery of the Bright Trans-Neptunian Object 2000 EB173
We describe the discovery circumstances and photometric properties of 2000 EB173, now one of the brightest trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with opposition...
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PublicationDisrupted Asteroid P/2016 G1. II. Follow-up Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope
After the early observations of the disrupted asteroid P/2016 G1 with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and modeling of the dust ejecta, we have...
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PublicationDistant trans-Neptunian object candidates from NASA's TESS mission scrutinized: fainter than predicted or false positives?
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is performing a homogeneous survey of the sky from space in search of transiting exoplanets. The collected...
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PublicationDistribution and spectrophotometric classification of basaltic asteroids
We aim to determine the distribution of basaltic asteroids (classified as V-types) based on the spectrophotometric data reported in the MOVIS-C catalogue. A...