Astrofísicas: Asteroides

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    Study of Some Dynamical Phenomena in the Solar System
    The number of minor bodies in the Solar System is continuing to increase. More than 30,000 asteroids have been discovered by 1996, and about 7,000 have been...
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    Taxonomic classification of asteroids based on MOVIS near-infrared colors
    Context. The MOVIS catalog contains the largest set of near-infrared (NIR) colors for solar system objects. These data were obtained from the observations...
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    Testing space weathering models on A-type asteroid (1951) Lick
    Aims:A-type asteroid (1951) Lick has a very red visible and near-infrared reflectance spectrum, and it is one of the reddest Near-Earth objects. Its surface is...
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    Testing the comet nature of main belt comets. The spectra of 133P/Elst-Pizarro and 176P/LINEAR
    Context. Dynamically, 133P/Elst-Pizarro and 176P/LINEAR are main belt asteroids, likely members of the Themis collisional family, and unlikely of cometary...
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    The 1991 outburst of Comet P/Metcalf-Brewington: A study of the light curve
    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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    The 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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    The 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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    The 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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    The 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...