Astrofísicas: Asteroides

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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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    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...
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    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...
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    Bennu's global surface and two candidate sample sites characterized by spectral clustering of OSIRIS-REx multispectral images
    The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft encountered the asteroid (101955) Bennu on December 3, 2018, and has since acquired extensive data from the payload of scientific...
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    Characterisation of the new target of the NASA Lucy mission: Asteroid 152830 Dinkinesh (1999 VD57)
    Context. The NASA Lucy mission is designed to collect data that will be used to study the very interesting population of Jupiter Trojans, which are considered...