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Mass, Density, and Radius of Asteroid (16) Psyche from High-precision Astrometry
The Astronomical JournalWe characterize asteroid (16) Psyche using high-precision astrometry, including the recent Gaia Focused Product Release. The gravitational perturbations of Psyche on other asteroids can be observable in the case of mutual encounters.
Davide Farnocchia +4 more
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Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction
Scientific Reports, 2021 The origin of the Chicxulub impactor, which is attributed as the cause of the K/T mass extinction event, is an unsolved puzzle. The background impact rates of main-belt asteroids and long-period comets have been previously dismissed as being too low to ...
Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb
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Digital Tracking Observations Can Discover Asteroids Ten Times Fainter than Conventional Searches [PDF]
, 2015 We describe digital tracking, a method for asteroid searches that greatly increases the sensitivity of a telescope to faint unknown asteroids. It has been previously used to detect faint Kuiper Belt objects using the Hubble Space Telescope and large ground-based instruments, and to find a small, fast-moving asteroid during a close approach to Earth. We
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Influence of the Centaurs and TNOs on the main belt and its families [PDF]
Astrophysics and Space Science, December 2016, 361:371, 2016 Centaurs are objects whose orbits are found between those of the giant planets. They are supposed to originate mainly from the TransNeptunian objects, and they are among the sources of NearEarth Objects.TransNeptunian Objects (TNOs) cross Neptune's orbit and produce the Centaurs.
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Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 529-543, March 2025.Abstract Solar wind Fe and Mg fluences (atoms/cm2) were measured from Genesis collectors. Fe and Mg have similar first ionization potentials and solar wind Fe/Mg should equal the solar ratio. Solar wind Fe/Mg is a more valid measure of solar composition than CI chondrites and can be measured more accurately than spectroscopic photospheric abundances ...
D. S. Burnett +11 more
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VIS‐to‐MIR reflectance and Raman spectroscopy of the CM2 NWA 12184 carbonaceous chondrite
Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 570-595, March 2025.Abstract The spectral analysis of CM meteorites can help to constrain the mineralogical composition of their parent body, the C‐type asteroids. The CM2 NWA 12184 was spectrally examined employing seven complementary techniques at different spatial resolutions, including VIS‐to‐MIR reflectance and Raman spectroscopy.
A. Galiano +15 more
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Ceres: Organic‐Rich Sites of Exogenic Origin?
AGU Advances, Volume 6, Issue 1, February 2025.Abstract Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, is the only potential ocean world in the inner Solar System. Previous studies identified deposits of aliphatic organics in and around the Ernutet crater, and at small locations at Inamahari and Urvara craters. The origin of organics, either endogenic or exogenic, in these fresh exposures is still
R. Sarkar +9 more
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Planetesimal clearing and size-dependent asteroid retention by secular resonance sweeping during the depletion of the solar nebula [PDF]
, 2016 The distribution of heavy elements is anomalously low in the asteroid main belt region compared with elsewhere in the solar system. Observational surveys also indicate a deficit in the number of small ($ \le 50$~km size) asteroids that is two orders of magnitude lower than what is expected from the single power-law distribution that results from a ...
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Evidence for Magnetically‐Driven Accretion in the Distal Solar System
AGU Advances, Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2024.Abstract Paleomagnetic measurements of meteorites indicate that magnetic fields existed in the inner solar nebula capable of driving accretion at rates similar to those observed for young stellar objects with protoplanetary disks. However, the field strength in the solar system beyond ∼7 astronomical units (AU) and its role in accretion remain poorly ...
Elias N. Mansbach +11 more
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Excitation and depletion of the asteroid belt in the early instability scenario [PDF]
, 2018 Containing only a few percent the mass of the moon, the current asteroid belt is around three to four orders of magnitude smaller that its primordial mass inferred from disk models. Yet dynamical studies have shown that the asteroid belt could not have been depleted by more than about an order of magnitude over the past ~4 Gyr.
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