Context. The JAXA asteroid sample return mission Hayabusa2 reached its target (162173) Ryugu in June 2018 and released the European (CNES-DLR) lander MASCOT in...
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PublicationNumerical modeling of lander interaction with a low-gravity asteroid regolith surface. II. Interpreting the successful landing of Hayabusa2 MASCOT
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PublicationObservations of two superfast rotator NEAs: 2021 NY<SUB>1</SUB> and 2022 AB
In the framework of the visible NEAs observations survey (ViNOS) that uses several telescopes at the Canary Islands observatories since 2018, we observed two...
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PublicationObservations, compositional, and physical characterization of near-Earth and Mars-crosser asteroids from a spectroscopic survey
Aims: We analyse a significantly large sample of spectroscopic data to provide a compositional characterization of the near-Earth asteroid population. We...
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PublicationOn the Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet 313P/Gibbs
We present observations carried out using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and an interpretative model of the dust environment of activated asteroid 313 P...
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PublicationOnce in a blue moon: detection of `bluing' during debris transits in the white dwarf WD 1145+017
The first transiting planetesimal orbiting a white dwarf was recently detected in K2 data of WD 1145+017 and has been followed up intensively. The multiple...
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PublicationOort cloud perturbations as a source of hyperbolic Earth impactors
The observation of interstellar objects 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov suggests the existence of a larger population of smaller projectiles that impact our planet...
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PublicationOpposition Observations of 162173 Ryugu: Normal Albedo Map Highlights Variations in Regolith Characteristics
On 2019 January 8, the Telescopic Optical Navigation Camera (ONC-T) on board the Hayabusa2 spacecraft observed the Cb-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu under near...
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PublicationOrigin of the near-Earth asteroid Phaethon and the Geminids meteor shower
Aims: In this paper we establish a compositional and dynamical connection between two B-type objects: main belt asteroid (2) Pallas and near-Earth asteroid...
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PublicationOutcome of the Dart Mission, the First Planetary Defence Experiment
On the 26th of September, 2022, at 23:14 UT, the APL/NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted successfully on the secondary of the NEA...