CCD photometry of Mars crosser asteroids using small robotic telescopes

Licandro, Javier; Serra-Ricart, Miquel; Aznar, Amadeo
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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019

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2019
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3
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2
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0
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Description
We present preliminary results of a photometric program aimed to study the rotational properties of the population of Mars-crosser asteroids by means of CCD photometry. We use a set of small robotic telescopes located in the Teide Observatory (Tenerife, Spain) and the Isaac Aznar Observatory (Alcublas, Spain). A total of 54 Mars Crossers were observed at the moment of writing this abstract. For 51 of them we were able to obtain complete light-curves and accurately derive their rotation period. We also observed 7 near-Earth asteroids and several main belt asteroids that appear in the images of the MCs.