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Transformer-based Approach for Accurate Asteroid Spectra Taxonomy and Albedo Estimation

The Astronomical Journal
China plans to launch a probe (Tianwen-2) around 2025, mainly to explore the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3 (469219, Kamo’oalewa). The mission involves close-range exploration, landing, and mining operations that require three-dimensional modeling of the ...
Yijun Tang, Yunxiao Jiang, Yuxiang Feng, Xiaoming Zhang, Xiaojun Jiang   +4 more
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Thermophysical Investigation of Asteroid Surfaces. II. Factors Influencing Grain Size

The Planetary Science Journal, 2022
Asteroid surfaces are subjected to mechanical weathering processes that result in the development and evolution of regolith. Two proposed mechanisms—impact bombardment and thermal fatigue—have been proposed as viable and dominant weathering processes ...
Eric M. MacLennan, Joshua P. Emery
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The ORCA‐TWIN qCMOS Experiment I. Science Case and Commissioning at Calar Alto Observatory

Astronomische Nachrichten, Volume 347, Issue 7, August 2026.
ABSTRACT We describe a pilot study to explore a new generation of fast and low noise CMOS image sensors for time domain astronomy, using two remote telescopes with a baseline of 1635 km. The experiment involves direct imaging with novel qCMOS image sensor technology that combines fast readout with sub‐electron readout noise.
Martin M. Roth, Paško Roje, Stella Vješnica, Stefan Cikota, Alex J. Brown, Mike Kretlow, Marco Azzaro, Santiago Reinhart, Jesús Aceituno, Harry Dawson, Carsten Denker, Torsten Enßlin, Stephan Geier, Thomas Granzer, Thomas Kupfer, Gianluca Li Causi, Samaya Nissanke, José Luis Ortiz, Fernando Pedichini, Katja Poppenhäger, Axel Schwope   +20 more
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On the oldest asteroid families in the main belt [PDF]

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016
Asteroid families are groups of minor bodies produced by high-velocity collisions. After the initial dispersions of the parent bodies fragments, their orbits evolve because of several gravitational and non-gravitational effects,such as diffusion in mean-motion resonances, Yarkovsky and YORP effects, close encounters of collisions, etc.
Carruba, V, Nesvorný, D., Aljbaae, Safwan, Domingos, R, Huaman, M   +4 more
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WISE results for the Main Belt Asteroids

, 2011
We present diameter and albedo results for main belt asteroids using data from the WISE spacecraft.
Mueller, M., Walker, R. G., Wright, E. L., Cutri, R., Masiero, J., Bauer, J. M., McMillan, R. S., Mainzer, A. K., Grav, T., Delbo, M., Dailey, J.   +10 more
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Comparative Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of Dark, Primitive Asteroids: Does Shared Taxonomic Class Indicate Shared Silicate Composition?

The Planetary Science Journal
Primitive asteroids with low albedos and red slopes in the visible and near-infrared (VNIR) are found in both the main belt and the Jupiter Trojan clouds.
Oriel A. Humes, Audrey C. Martin, Cristina A. Thomas, Joshua P. Emery   +3 more
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Structural Evolution of Antigorite by High‐Velocity Impacts

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, Volume 131, Issue 8, August 2026.
Abstract Serpentine is a major hydrous mineral present in hydrous asteroids that have evolved through planetary impacts. Understanding its dynamic behavior is essential to elucidate the redistribution and retention of water during high‐velocity impact processes. The shock response of antigorite was examined at pressures up to 106 GPa using laser‐driven
Yuhei Umeda, Yusuke Seto, Naotaka Tomioka, Hiroshi Arima‐Osonoi, Yoichiro Hironaka, Yuichi Inubushi, Kento Katagiri, Ryosuke Kodama, Kohei Miyanishi, Hirotaka Nakamura, Norimasa Ozaki, Tomoko Sato, Keiichi Sueda, Tadashi Togashi, Toshinori Yabuuchi, Makina Yabashi, Toshimori Sekine, Takuo Okuchi   +17 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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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., Masiero, Joseph R., Grav, T., Mainzer, A. K., Sonnett, S., Nugent, C. R., Stevenson, R.   +6 more
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The role of composition in the spectral evolution of carbonaceous asteroids as informed by Bennu sample return

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue 8, Page 1875-1904, August 2026.
Abstract Near‐Earth rubble‐pile asteroids Bennu and Ryugu are part of the carbonaceous taxonomic complex (C‐complex), and samples returned from both bodies resemble the most aqueously altered carbonaceous chondrites. However, telescopic and spacecraft visible–near infrared (VIS–NIR) reflectance spectra of Ryugu exhibit a red (positive) spectral slope ...
Ralph E. Milliken, Takahiro Hiroi, Victoria E. Hamilton, Cody D. Schultz, Ed A. Cloutis, Hannah H. Kaplan, Melissa K. Kontogiannis, Nathalia Vega‐Santiago, Dani N. DellaGiustina, Harold C. Connolly Jr., Dante S. Lauretta   +10 more
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