Distant Formation and Differentiation of Outer Main Belt Asteroids and Carbonaceous Chondrite Parent Bodies [PDF]
AGU Advances, 2022 Volatile compositions of asteroids provide information on the Solar System history and the origins of Earth's volatiles. Visible to near‐infrared observations at wavelengths of 4) and low temperatures (10 au) and could be transported to their current ...
H. Kurokawa +6 more
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Main-belt Asteroids in the K2 Uranus Field [PDF]
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2018 We present the K2 light curves of a large sample of untargeted main-belt asteroids (MBAs) detected with the Kepler Space Telescope. The asteroids were observed within the Uranus superstamp, a relatively large, continuous field with a low stellar ...
L. Molnár +9 more
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Aqueous alteration on main belt primitive asteroids: results from visible spectroscopy [PDF]
, 2014 This work focuses on the study of the aqueous alteration process which acted in the main belt and produced hydrated minerals on the altered asteroids.
Barucci, M. A. +3 more
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Dynamical evolution of V-type asteroids in the central main belt [PDF]
, 2014 V-type asteroids are associated with basaltic composition, and are supposed to be fragments of crust of differentiated objects. Most V-type asteroids in the main belt are found in the inner main belt, and are either current members of the Vesta dynamical
Carruba, V. +4 more
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Effect of rotational disruption on the size-frequency distribution of the Main Belt asteroid population [PDF]
, 2014 The size distribution of small asteroids in the Main Belt is assumed to be determined by an equilibrium between the creation of new bodies out of the impact debris of larger asteroids and the destruction of small asteroids by collisions with smaller ...
Davis, Donald R. +4 more
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Asteroid Discovery and Light Curve Extraction Using the Hough Transform: A Rotation Period Study for Subkilometer Main-belt Asteroids [PDF]
Astronomical Journal, 2019 The intranight trajectories of asteroids can be approximated by straight lines, and so are their intranight detections. Therefore, the Hough transform, a line detecting algorithm, can be used to connect the line-up detections to find asteroids.
Kai-Jie Lo +10 more
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Numerical simulations suggest asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu are likely second or later generation rubble piles [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsRubble pile asteroids are widely understood to be composed of reaccumulated debris following a catastrophic collision between asteroids in the main asteroid belt, where each disruption can make a family of new asteroids.
K. J. Walsh +14 more
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Astronomical JournalThe NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a new 8m-class survey facility presently being commissioned in Chile, expected to begin the 10 yr long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) by the end of 2025.
Jacob A. Kurlander +20 more
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Main Belt Asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE: Near-Infrared Albedos [PDF]
, 2014 We present revised near-infrared albedo fits of 2835 Main Belt asteroids observed by WISE/NEOWISE over the course of its fully cryogenic survey in 2010.
Bauer, J. M. +6 more
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Photometry and Models of Seven Main-Belt Asteroids
UniverseThe China Near-Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST) conducted four photometric surveys from 2015 to 2018 using image processing and aperture photometry techniques to obtain extensive light curve data on asteroids. The second-order Fourier series method
Jun Tian +6 more
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