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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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NEOMOD: A New Orbital Distribution Model for Near-Earth Objects

The Astronomical Journal, 2023
Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are a transient population of small bodies with orbits near or in the terrestrial planet region. They represent a mid-stage in the dynamical cycle of asteroids and comets, which starts with their removal from the respective ...
David Nesvorný, Rogerio Deienno, William F. Bottke, Robert Jedicke, Shantanu Naidu, Steven R. Chesley, Paul W. Chodas, Mikael Granvik, David Vokrouhlický, Miroslav Brož, Alessandro Morbidelli, Eric Christensen, Frank C. Shelly, Bryce T. Bolin   +13 more
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Active asteroids: mystery in the Main Belt [PDF]

Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2005
Classically, comets from the outer solar system (beyond the orbit of Neptune), are expected to be icy, and thus active near the Sun, while asteroids in the inner solar system (interior to the orbit of Jupiter) are expected to be relatively ice-deficient, and thus inert.
Henry H. Hsieh, David Jewitt
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Confirmation of the impact origin of the Late Ordovician Tvären impact structure (southeast Sweden) and emplacement of impactites in a marine setting

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract The Tvären structure in southeastern Sweden has been listed as a confirmed marine‐target impact structure for decades. However, to date, no measurements and/or indexed data of planar deformation features in quartz grains from the structure have been published or any other unequivocal evidence of impact.
Katarzyna J. Gajewska, Sanna Alwmark, Mikael Calner, Sylvain Richoz, Jens Ormö, Erik Sturkell, Carl Alwmark   +6 more
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A Pre-flyby View on the Origin of Asteroid Donaldjohanson, a Target of the NASA Lucy Mission

The Planetary Science Journal
The NASA Lucy mission is scheduled to fly by the main-belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson on 2025 April 20. Donaldjohanson (DJ hereafter) is a member of the primitive (C-type class) Erigone collisional asteroid family located in the inner main belt in ...
Simone Marchi, David Vokrouhlický, David Nesvorný, William F. Bottke, Josef Ďurech, Harold F. Levison   +5 more
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The Compositional Structure of the Asteroid Belt

, 2015
The past decade has brought major improvements in large-scale asteroid discovery and characterization with over half a million known asteroids and over 100,000 with some measurement of physical characterization.
Alexander, Conel M. O'D., Binzel, Richard P., Chapman, Clark R., DeMeo, Francesca E., Walsh, Kevin J.   +4 more
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Widespread Impact‐Induced Crustal Permeability on the Early Earth

AGU Advances, Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2026.
Abstract The early Earth (i.e., Archean and Hadean Eons, 2.5–4.0 and 4.0–4.5 Ga, respectively) experienced frequent cosmic bombardment. Impacts have been shown to stimulate crustal alteration, for instance via hydrothermal systems active for up to millions of years post‐impact.
A. M. Alexander, S. Marchi, B. C. Johnson   +2 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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Archives of impact: The politics of craters on Earth

Geographical Research, Volume 64, Issue 2, May 2026.
This paper examines Earth’s 195 confirmed impact craters as archives, exploring their cataloguing and presentation as heritage sites. It argues Western scientific framings using military language and emphasising catastrophe overlook settler colonialism’s violent histories and marginalise indigenous earth‐sky cosmologies.
Gareth Hoskins
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The Distribution of Highly Red-sloped Asteroids in the Middle and Outer Main Belt

The Planetary Science Journal
Red ( S > 10%/0.1 μ m) spectral slopes are common among Centaurs and trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) in the outer solar system. Interior to and co-orbital with Jupiter, the red ( S ∼ 10%/0.1 μ m) slopes of D-type main-belt and Jupiter Trojan asteroids are
Oriel A. Humes, Cristina A. Thomas, Lauren E. McGraw   +2 more
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