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The earliest studies of asteroid mining proposed retrieving a main belt asteroid. Because of the very long travel times to the main asteroid belt, attention has shifted to the asteroids whose orbits bring them fairly close to the Earth. In these schemes,
Gertsch, Richard E.
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Unexpected D-type Interlopers in the Inner Main Belt
, 2013 Very red featureless asteroids (spectroscopic D-types) are expected to have formed in the outer solar system far from the sun. They comprise the majority of asteroids in the Jupiter Trojan population, and are also commonly found in the outer main belt ...
Binzel, Richard P. +4 more
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Accretion and Uneven Depletion of the Main Asteroid Belt
The Planetary Science JournalThe main asteroid belt (MAB) is known to be primarily composed of objects from two distinct taxonomic classes, generically defined here as S- and C-complex.
Rogerio Deienno +5 more
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Microwave Emission from the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt and the Asteroid Belt Constrained from WMAP
, 2011 Objects in the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt and the main asteroid belt should emit microwaves that may give rise to extra anisotropy signals in the multipole of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiment.
Fukugita, Masataka, Ichikawa, Kazuhide
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A Census before Rubin of Asteroid Families in the Main Belt
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesA collisional family is a collection of ≳kilometer-size asteroid fragments produced by a large-scale collision between asteroids. Here we cataloged 335 notable collisional families in the main asteroid belt.
David Nesvorný
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Secular evolution of asteroid families: the role of Ceres
, 2015 We consider the role of the dwarf planet Ceres on the secular dynamics of the asteroid main belt. Specifically, we examine the post impact evolution of asteroid families due to the interaction of their members with the linear nodal secular resonance with
Djosovic, Vladimir +4 more
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Active Asteroids: Main-Belt Comets and Disrupted Asteroids [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2015 AbstractThe study of active asteroids has attracted a great deal of interest in recent years since the recognition of main-belt comets (which orbit in the main asteroid belt, but exhibit comet-like activity due to the sublimation of volatile ices) as a new class of comets in 2006, and the discovery of the first disrupted asteroids (which, unlike MBCs ...
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2020 BX12—The Last Binary Asteroid Discovered at Arecibo
The Planetary Science JournalRadar observations of 2020 BX _12 conducted with the S -band planetary radar system (2380 MHz, 12.6 cm) at the Arecibo Observatory on 2020 February 4 and 5 revealed that this potentially hazardous asteroid is a binary system.
Luisa Fernanda Zambrano-Marin +7 more
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The taxonomic distribution of asteroids from multi-filter all-sky photometric surveys
, 2013 The distribution of asteroids across the Main Belt has been studied for decades to understand the compositional distribution and what that tells us about the formation and evolution of our solar system.
Carry, Benoit, DeMeo, Francesca
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A Pre-flyby View on the Origin of Asteroid Donaldjohanson, a Target of the NASA Lucy Mission
The Planetary Science JournalThe NASA Lucy mission is scheduled to fly by the main-belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson on 2025 April 20. Donaldjohanson (DJ hereafter) is a member of the primitive (C-type class) Erigone collisional asteroid family located in the inner main belt in ...
Simone Marchi +5 more
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