Astrofísicas: Pequeños cuerpos del sistema solar

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    Sacándole los colores a Bennu: nuevos resultados sobre el origen de este asteroide primitivo

    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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    A 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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    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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    Detection 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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    La 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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    Opposition 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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    Synchronous 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...

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    The Changing Rotational Light-curve Amplitude of Varuna and Evidence for a Close-in Satellite

    From CCD observations carried out with different telescopes, we present short-term photometric measurements of the large trans-Neptunian object Varuna in 10...

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    Tocar y volver de un asteroide: OSIRIS-REx y Bennu

    Este martes, 20 de octubre, a las 23:12 (hora canaria), la nave de la NASA OSIRIS-REx hará el primer intento para recoger muestras del asteroide (101955) Bennu...