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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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Candidate Main-belt Asteroids for Surface Heterogeneity
The Astronomical JournalLarge terrestrial bodies in our solar system like the Earth, Mars, Mercury, and the Moon exhibit geologically complex surfaces with compositional heterogeneity.
Sunao Hasegawa +12 more
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Satellite Formation around the Largest Asteroids
The Astrophysical Journal LettersSatellites around large asteroids are preferentially found among those with the most rapid rotation and elongated shape. The taxonomic statistics are similarly skewed; in total, 13 asteroids larger than 100 km are known to have satellites, but none have ...
Kevin J. Walsh +5 more
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Asteroid Systems: Binaries, Triples, and Pairs
, 2015 In the past decade, the number of known binary near-Earth asteroids has more than quadrupled and the number of known large main belt asteroids with satellites has doubled.
Carry, Benoît +4 more
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Infrared Colors of Small Serendipitously Found Asteroids in the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey
The Astronomical JournalThe UKIRT Hemisphere Survey covers the northern sky in the infrared from 0° to 60° decl. Current data releases include both J and K bands, with H -band data forthcoming. Here, we present a novel pipeline to recover asteroids from this survey data.
Samantha G. Morrison +5 more
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Collaborative asteroid photometry of six main-belt asteroids
, 2022 Synodic rotation periods of six main-belt asteroids were derived from photometric observations obtained from 2021 July 21 through November 2 from three observatories situated in Malta and one from Spain. We provide lightcurve rotation periods for (1713) Banchilon, (2232) Altaj, (2458) Veniakaverin, (6681) Prokopovich, (6787) 1991 PF15, and (18863) 1999
Brincat, Stephen M. +3 more
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Orbits of the Asteroids Discovered at the Molėtai Observatory in 2000–2004
Open Astronomy, 2014 The paper presents statistics of the asteroids observed and discovered at the Molėtai Observatory, Lithuania in 2000–2004 within the project for astrometric observations of the near-Earth objects (NEOs), the main belt asteroids and comets.
Černis K. +2 more
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Observations and Quantitative Compositional Analysis of Ceres, Pallas, and Hygiea Using JWST/NIRSpec
The Planetary Science JournalWe present JWST Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) measurements of the three largest low-albedo main-belt asteroids: (1) Ceres, (2) Pallas, and (10) Hygiea.
Andrew S. Rivkin +8 more
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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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The Thousand Asteroid Light Curve Survey
, 2009 We present the results of our Thousand Asteroid Light Curve Survey (TALCS) conducted with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope in September 2006. Our untargeted survey detected 828 Main Belt asteroids to a limiting magnitude of g'~22.5 corresponding to a ...
Denneau, Larry +5 more
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