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Astrophysical: Kuiper belt

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    Discovery 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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    Distant 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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    Links between the dynamical evolution and the surface color of the Centaurs

    Context. The Centaurs are a transitional population of minor bodies of the solar system and the evolutionary link between the trans-Neptunian objects and the...

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    No Evidence for Orbital Clustering in the Extreme Trans-Neptunian Objects

    The apparent clustering in longitude of perihelion ϖ and ascending node Ω of extreme trans-Neptunian objects (ETNOs) has been attributed to the gravitational...

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    Origin of two primitive NEAs: (3200) Phaethon and 1998 RQ36

    Understanding the composition and the nature of any asteroid approaching the Earth, and consequently potentially hazardous, is a matter of general interest...

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    Photometry of Outer Solar System Objects from the Dark Energy Survey. I. Photometric Methods, Light-curve Distributions, and Trans-Neptunian Binaries

    We report the methods of and initial scientific inferences from the extraction of precision photometric information for the >800 trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs)...

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    Rotational fission of trans-Neptunian objects: the case of Haumea

    We present several lines of evidence, based on different kinds of observations, and we conclude that it is likely that rotational fission has occurred for a...

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    Spectroscopy of the binary TNO Mors-Somnus with the JWST and its relationship to the cold classical and plutino subpopulations observed in the DiSCo-TNO project

    Context. Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) are remnants of small icy bodies from planetary formation that orbit in the region beyond Neptune. Within the population...

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    Spitzer Space Telescope studies of primitive solar system objects

    The Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) on Spitzer has observed more than 120 asteroids, several Centaurs and Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), and satellites of the giant...