The transport of large near-Earth objects into the Centaur region
Astronomy & AstrophysicsContext. Near-Earth objects (NEOs) and Centaurs are minor bodies that orbit the Sun in the terrestrial and giant-planet regions, respectively. Recent studies show that approximately 9% of the known large NEOs that leave the terrestrial planet region are ...
Araujo R. A. N. +2 more
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Thermal Model Calibration for Minor Planets Observed with WISE/NEOWISE: Comparison with IRAS
, 2011 With thermal infrared observations detected by the NEOWISE project, we have measured diameters for 1742 minor planets that were also observed by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS).
Bowell +12 more
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Weak S-type asteroids compared to C-type explain the observed size distribution of the main belt
Astronomy & AstrophysicsThe main belt, the region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, is home to more than 1 million asteroids. These asteroids form orbital groups, (i.e., asteroid families formed by collisions) and also spectral groups (taxonomies) with different chemical ...
Vávra M., Brož M.
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Classification of asteroid families with artificial neural networks [PDF]
Serbian Astronomical Journal, 2020 This paper describes an artificial neural network for classification of asteroids into families. The data used for artificial neural network training and testing were obtained by the Hierarchical Clustering Method (HCM).
Vujičić D. +5 more
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, 2010 We present the discovery of three new giant planets around three metal-deficient stars: HD5388b (1.96M_Jup), HD181720b (0.37M_Jup), and HD190984b (3.1M_Jup).
C. Lovis +48 more
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People Love to Name Things: Current Trends in Naming Minor Planets
Вопросы ономастикиAfter several introductory remarks regarding the onomastic terminology used for names of celestial objects, the article proposes a semantic and a limited formal analysis of the minor planet names officially published in 2022 by the International ...
Jan Holeš
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CCD astrometric observations of minor planets at the Belgrade observatory during 1999 (II) [PDF]
Serbian Astronomical Journal, 2001 76 precise astrometric positions of six observed minor planets (two NEO among them) are calculated. The SBIG ST-8 camera attached to Askania astrograph of Belgrade Observatory was used in the observations.
Protitch-Benishek V., Benishek Vl.
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Near Infrared Surface Properties of the Two Intrinsically Brightest Minor Planets (90377) Sedna and (90482) Orcus [PDF]
, 2005 We present low resolution K band spectra taken at the Gemini 8 meter telescope of (90377) Sedna and (90482) Orcus (provisional designations 2003 VB12 and 2004 DW, respectively), currently the two minor planets with the greatest absolute magnitudes (i.e ...
Brown, Michael E. +3 more
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An Objective Classification Scheme for Solar-System Bodies Based on Surface Gravity
GalaxiesWe introduce succinct and objective definitions of the various classes of objects in the solar system. Unlike the formal definitions adopted by the International Astronomical Union in 2006, group separation is obtained from measured physical properties ...
Dimitris M. Christodoulou +2 more
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Destruction of Binary Minor Planets During Neptune Scattering
, 2010 The existence of extremely wide binaries in the low-inclination component of the Kuiper Belt provides a unique handle on the dynamical history of this population. Some popular frameworks of the formation of the Kuiper Belt suggest that planetesimals were
Collins +6 more
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