A photometric and spectroscopic study of the multi-tailed asteroid (6478) Gault

Bibcode
2019EPSC...13.1826J
Jehin, Emmanuel; Moreno, Fernando; Ferrais, Marin; Pozuelos, Francisco J.; Licandro, Javier; Moulane, Youssef; Devogele, Maxime; Manfroid, Jean; Benkhaldoun, Zouhair; Snodgrass, Colin
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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019

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9
2019
Number of authors
10
IAC number of authors
1
Citations
0
Refereed citations
0
Description
In this presentation, we describe several months of monitoring of Gault since January 2019 using various telescopes and instrumentation. The goal is to characterize and to model the asteroids and the tails to impose constraints on the physical properties of the ejected dust, and to shed light on the activity timeline and the causes for the ejection events.
Type
Non-refereed

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