Astrofísicas: Asteroides

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    Development of image texture analysis technique for boulder distribution measurements: Applications to asteroids Ryugu and Itokawa
    Recent asteroid missions have revealed that many sub-kilometer asteroids are rubble piles. Large parts of their surfaces are covered with boulders larger than...
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    Differences between the Pallas collisional family and similarly sized B-type asteroids
    Context. B-type asteroids constitute a peculiar spectral class within the C-complex. Previous work has pointed out the difference between the visible geometric...
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    Discovery and physical characterization as the first response to a potential asteroid collision: The case of 2023 DZ<SUB>2</SUB>
    Context. Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) that may evolve into impactors deserve detailed threat assessment studies. Early physical characterization of a would-be...
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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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    Disk-resolved photometric modeling and properties of asteroid (101955) Bennu
    OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) is a NASA mission to return a sample of asteroid (101955)...
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    Disrupted Asteroid P/2016 G1. II. Follow-up Observations from the Hubble Space Telescope
    After the early observations of the disrupted asteroid P/2016 G1 with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and modeling of the dust ejecta, we have...
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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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    Distribution and spectrophotometric classification of basaltic asteroids
    We aim to determine the distribution of basaltic asteroids (classified as V-types) based on the spectrophotometric data reported in the MOVIS-C catalogue. A...
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    Dozens of virtual impactor orbits eliminated by the EURONEAR VIMP DECam data mining project
    Context. Massive data mining of image archives observed with large etendue facilities represents a great opportunity for orbital amelioration of poorly known...