Astrofísicas: Asteroides

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    El IAC continúa el seguimiento del asteroide 2024 YR4 para afinar la probabilidad de impacto en 2032
    El grupo de Sistema Solar del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participa en el esfuerzo internacional para seguir de cerca el asteroide 2024 YR4. El...
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    El mejor regalo para comenzar el año: Cuadrántidas 2022
    La madrugada del 4 de enero el proyecto europeo Interreg EELabs retransmitirá la lluvia de meteoros de las Cuadrántidas desde el Observatorio del Teide, del...
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    Euclid: Detecting Solar System objects in Euclid images and classifying them using Kohonen self-organising maps
    The ESA Euclid mission will survey more than 14 000 deg 2 of the sky in visible and near-infrared wavelengths, mapping the extragalactic sky to constrain our...
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    EURONEAR: Data mining of asteroids and Near Earth Asteroids
    Besides new observations, mining old photographic plates and CCD image archives represents an opportunity to recover and secure newly discovered asteroids, also...
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    Expected spectral characteristics of (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, targets of the OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 missions
    NASA's OSIRIS-REx and JAXA's Hayabusa2 sample-return missions are currently on their way to encounter primitive near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173)...
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    Exploring the nature of new main-belt comets with the 10.4 m GTC telescope: (300163) 2006 VW139
    Aims: We aim to study the dust ejected by main-belt comet (MBC) (300163) 2006 VW139 to obtain information on the ejection mechanism and the spectral properties...
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    Fast spectrophotometry of WD 1145+017
    WD 1145+017 is currently the only white dwarf known to exhibit periodic transits of planetary debris as well as absorption lines from circumstellar gas. We...
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    First EURONEAR NEA discoveries from La Palma using the INT
    Since 2006, the European Near Earth Asteroids Research (EURONEAR) project has been contributing to the research of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) within a European...
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    First survey of phase curves of V-type asteroids
    The V-type asteroids are of major scientific interest as they may sample multiple differentiated planetesimals. Determination of their physical properties is...