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Determining the Pyroxene Mineralogies of Vestoids
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 Bulk pyroxene compositions were calculated for a number of V-type asteroid spectra using formulae derived by Burbine et al. These formulae were derived by analyzing HED (howardite, eucrite, and diogenite) meteorites and calculate bulk Fs (mol%) and Wo ...
T. H. Burbine +3 more
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Dynamical evolution of basaltic asteroids outside the Vesta family in the inner main belt [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2023 Basaltic V-type asteroids are leftovers from the formation and evolution of differentiated planetesimals. They are thought to originate from mantles and crusts of multiple different parent bodies. Identifying the links between individual V-type asteroids
V. Troianskyi +2 more
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Polarimetric survey of main-belt asteroids [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2011 Aims. We present the first results of a polarimetric survey of main-belt asteroids at Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito (Casleo), San Juan, Argentina. The aims of this survey are to increase the database of asteroid polarimetry, to estimate diversity in polarimetric properties of asteroids that belong to different taxonomic classes, and to search for ...
R. Gil-Hutton, M. Cañada-Assandri
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The Challenge of Measuring Asteroid Masses with Gaia DR2 Astrometry
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 The Gaia second data release (DR2) contains high-accuracy astrometric measurements of thousands of solar system bodies. These measurements raise the possibility of determining asteroid masses by modeling scattering events between massive objects observed
Zachary Murray
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The Flux Distribution and Sky Density of 25th Magnitude Main Belt Asteroids [PDF]
Astronomical Journal, 2019 Digital tracking enables telescopes to detect asteroids several times fainter than conventional techniques. We describe our optimized methodology to acquire, process, and interpret digital tracking observations, and we apply it to probe the apparent ...
A. Heinze, Joseph Trollo, S. Metchev
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Thermal Properties of 1847 WISE-observed Asteroids
The Planetary Science Journal, 2022 We present new thermophysical model fits of 1847 asteroids, deriving thermal inertia, diameter, and Bond and visible geometric albedo. We use thermal flux measurements obtained by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) during its fully cryogenic ...
Denise Hung +3 more
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Asteroid family identification using the Hierarchical Clustering Method and WISE/NEOWISE physical properties [PDF]
, 2013 Using albedos from WISE/NEOWISE to separate distinct albedo groups within the Main Belt asteroids, we apply the Hierarchical Clustering Method to these subpopulations and identify dynamically associated clusters of asteroids. While this survey is limited
Bauer, J. M. +5 more
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Catalog of Proper Orbits for 1.25 Million Main-belt Asteroids and Discovery of 136 New Collisional Families [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal Supplement SeriesThe proper elements of asteroids are obtained from the instantaneous orbital elements by removing periodic oscillations produced by gravitational interactions with planets.
D. Nesvorný +3 more
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Taxonomy and Light-curve Data of 1000 Serendipitously Observed Main-belt Asteroids [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2018 We present VRI spectrophotometry of 1003 main-belt asteroids (MBAs) observed with the Sutherland, South Africa node of the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet).
N. Erasmus +5 more
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Detectability of the Yarkovsky Effect in the Main Belt
The Planetary Science Journal, 2023 We attempt to detect a signal of Yarkovsky-related acceleration in the orbits of 134 main belt asteroids (MBAs) we observed with the University of Hawai’i 88 inch telescope, supplemented with observations publicly available from the Minor Planet Center ...
Denise Hung +3 more
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