Astrofísicas: Planetas menores

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    Near-Earth asteroids spectroscopic survey at Isaac Newton Telescope
    Context. The population of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) shows a large variety of objects in terms of physical and dynamical properties. They are subject to...
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    Near-infrared colors of minor planets recovered from VISTA-VHS survey (MOVIS)
    Context. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) provide information about the surface composition of about 100 000...
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    Near-infrared spectroscopy of 1999 JU3, the target of the Hayabusa 2 mission
    Context. Primitive asteroids contain complex organic material and ices relevant to the origin of life on Earth. These types of asteroids are the target of...
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    Near-infrared spectroscopy of the nucleus of comet 124P/Mrkos
    We report near-infrared (0.9-2.3 mu m) spectral observations of the bare nucleus of comet 124P/Mrkos taken on two different nights using the Near Infrared...
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    Near-ultraviolet absorption distribution of primitive asteroids from spectrophotometric surveys. I. Radial distribution
    Context. Hydrated minerals, such as phyllosilicates, on asteroids can provide constraints on the temperature or compositional distribution of the early Solar...
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    Near-ultraviolet to visible spectroscopy of the Themis and Polana-Eulalia complex families
    Context. Spectrophotometry data of asteroids obtained in the 1980s showed that there are large variations in their near-ultraviolet (NUV) reflectance spectra...
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    NEOWISE Observations of Near-Earth Objects: Preliminary Results
    With the NEOWISE portion of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) project, we have carried out a highly uniform survey of the near-Earth object (NEO)...
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    New observations of asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3, primary target of the ESA Marco Polo-R mission
    Context. Near-Earth asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3 is the primary target of the ESA Marco Polo-R mission, which was selected for the assessment study phase of ESA...
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    New Worlds: the Search for Planets outside the Solar System
    For thousands of years humankind has speculated on the existence of planets and life beyond the solar system, but until recently astronomers have had only our...