(704) Interamnia: a transitional object between a dwarf planet and a typical irregular-shaped minor body [PDF]
Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2019 Context. With an estimated diameter in the 320–350 km range, (704) Interamnia is the fifth largest main belt asteroid and one of the few bodies that fills the gap in size between the four largest bodies with D > 400 km (Ceres, Vesta, Pallas and Hygiea ...
J. Hanuš +99 more
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Early Planet Formation in Embedded Disks (eDisk). II. Limited Dust Settling and Prominent Snow Surfaces in the Edge-on Class I Disk IRAS 04302+2247 [PDF]
Astrophysical Journal, 2023 While dust disks around optically visible, Class II protostars are found to be vertically thin, when and how dust settles to the midplane are unclear. As part of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array large program, Early Planet Formation in ...
Zheyu Lin +28 more
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Chromium on Mercury: New Results From the MESSENGER X‐Ray Spectrometer and Implications for the Innermost Planet's Geochemical Evolution [PDF]
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2023 Mercury, the innermost planet, formed under highly reduced conditions, based mainly on surface Fe, S, and Si abundances determined from MESSENGER mission data.
L. Nittler +8 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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A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf [PDF]
Nature, 2015 Most stars become white dwarfs after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel (the Sun will be one such). Between one-quarter and one-half of white dwarfs have elements heavier than helium in their atmospheres, even though these elements ought to sink ...
A. Vanderburg +18 more
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The unexpected narrowness of eccentric debris rings: a sign of eccentricity during the protoplanetary disc phase [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 This paper shows that the eccentric debris rings seen around the stars Fomalhaut and HD 202628 are narrower than expected in the standard eccentric planet perturbation scenario (sometimes referred to as ‘pericentre glow’). The standard scenario posits an
Grant M. Kennedy
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Constraining planet formation around 6M⊙-8M⊙ stars [PDF]
, 2020 Identifying planets around O-type and B-type stars is inherently difficult; the most massive known planet host has a mass of only about 3M⊙. However, planetary systems which survive the transformation of their host stars into white dwarfs can be detected
Gaensicke, Boris T. +6 more
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MOA-2016-BLG-319Lb: Microlensing Planet Subject to Rare Minor-image Perturbation Degeneracy in Determining Planet Parameters [PDF]
Astronomical Journal, 2018 We present the analysis of the planetary microlensing event MOA-2016-BLG-319. The event light curve is characterized by a brief (∼3 days) anomaly near the peak produced by minor-image perturbations.
C. Han +44 more
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DIVISION III / SERVICE MINOR PLANET CENTER [PDF]
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2008 T. B. Spahr +2 more
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