Astrofísicas: Asteroides

  • Galería
    Animaciones asteroides, cometas y meteoros
    Animaciones hechas en el IAC entre 2000 y 2007.
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    Apophis Planetary Defense Campaign
    We describe results of a planetary defense exercise conducted during the close approach to Earth by the near-Earth asteroid (99942) Apophis during 2020 December...
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    Asteroid Lightcurves from the MOA-II Survey: a pilot study
    The Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA-II) survey has performed high cadence, wide field observations of the Galactic Bulge from New Zealand since...
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    Asteroid pairs: A complex picture
    We studied a sample of 93 asteroid pairs, i.e., pairs of genetically related asteroids that are on highly similar heliocentric orbits. We estimated times...
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    Asteroid reflectance spectra from Gaia DR3: Near-UV in primitive asteroids
    Context. In the context of charge-coupled devices (CCDs), the ultraviolet (UV) region has mostly remained unexplored after the 1990s. Gaia DR3 offers the...
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    Asteroid sizes determined with thermophysical model and stellar occultations
    Context. The sizes of many asteroids, especially slowly rotating, low-amplitude targets, remain poorly constrained due to selection effects. These biases limit...
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    Asteroids' reflectance from Gaia DR3: Artificial reddening at near-UV wavelengths
    Context. Observational and instrumental difficulties observing small bodies below 0.5 μm make this wavelength range poorly studied compared with the visible and...
  • Noticia
    Avanzan en el conocimiento del cinturón de asteroides cercano a la Tierra, los Arjuna
    Una investigación en la que participa el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) analiza el objeto 2023 FY 3 , miembro de un grupo de asteroides que sigue...
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    Basaltic asteroids in the Near-Earth Objects population: a mineralogical analysis
    Aims.We present reflectance spectra of three V-type Near-Earth Objects obtained at the 3.6 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo and at the 2.5 m Nordic Optical...