La revista Science, en una colección especial sobre el asteroide Bennu, publicó ayer los resultados del análisis de las variaciones de color en la superficie...
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NoticiaSacándole los colores a Bennu: nuevos resultados sobre el origen de este asteroide primitivo
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PublicaciónA Candidate Location for Planet Nine from an Interstellar Meteoroid: The Messenger Hypothesis
The existence of a hypothetical Planet Nine lurking in the outer solar system has been invoked as a plausible explanation for the anomalous clustering in the...
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PublicaciónApophis 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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NoticiaConfirman un nuevo asteroide troyano que comparte órbita con Marte
Gracias a observaciones realizadas con el Gran Telescopio Canarias, un estudio liderado por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias y la Universidad Complutense...
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PublicaciónDetection of the Irregular Shape of the Southern Limb of Menoetius from Observations of the 2017-2018 Patroclus-Menoetius Mutual Events
This work presents the analysis of seven mutual events of the Patroclus-Menoetius system (PMS) observed during the last season of mutual events, in 2017-2018...
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NoticiaLa séptima edición del “Astronomy Education Adventure in the Canary Islands” rinde tributo a la mítica serie COSMOS
“Nuestro hogar en el océano cósmico” es el título elegido para la nueva edición del Curso Internacional de Verano para profesorado organizado por el Instituto...
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PublicaciónOpposition Observations of 162173 Ryugu: Normal Albedo Map Highlights Variations in Regolith Characteristics
On 2019 January 8, the Telescopic Optical Navigation Camera (ONC-T) on board the Hayabusa2 spacecraft observed the Cb-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu under near...
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PublicaciónPhotometry of the Didymos System across the DART Impact Apparition
On 2022 September 26, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted Dimorphos, the satellite of binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos...
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PublicaciónSynchronous Rotation in the (136199) Eris-Dysnomia System
We combine photometry of Eris from a 6 month campaign on the Palomar 60 inch telescope in 2015, a 1 month Hubble Space Telescope WFC3 campaign in 2018, and Dark...