Comet 103P/Hartley 2 was observed on November 1-6, 2010, coinciding with the fly-by of the space probe EPOXI. The goal was to connect the large scale phenomena...
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PublicationActivity of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 at the time of the EPOXI mission fly-by
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PublicationAnalysis in the visible range of NASA Lucy mission targets: Eurybates, Polymele, Orus and Donaldjohanson.
Jupiter Trojan asteroids are minor bodies that share Jupiter's orbit around the Sun. Although not yet well understood in origin and composition, they have...
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PublicationAsteroid pairs: A complex picture
We studied a sample of 93 asteroid pairs, i.e., pairs of genetically related asteroids that are on highly similar heliocentric orbits. We estimated times...
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PublicationAsteroids (65) Cybele, (107) Camilla and (121) Hermione: Infrared spectral diversity among the Cybeles
We find a clear diversity in the 3 μm and 10 μm features of three Cybele asteroids: (107) Camilla, (121) Hermione, and (65) Cybele. (121) Hermione exhibits a...
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PublicationBennu's global surface and two candidate sample sites characterized by spectral clustering of OSIRIS-REx multispectral images
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft encountered the asteroid (101955) Bennu on December 3, 2018, and has since acquired extensive data from the payload of scientific...
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PublicationCCD Photometry of Cometary Nuclei, I: Observations from 1990-1995
CCD photometry of 18 Jupiter family comets, observed at medium and large heliocentric distances, was carried out between April 1990 and July 1995. This is part...
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PublicationComet-like tail-formation of exospheres of hot rocky exoplanets: Possible implications for CoRoT-7b
In this study, the interaction of stellar wind plasma with the exosphere and possibly with the planetary magnetospheric environment of close-in rocky exoplanets...
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PublicationCoRoT: Harvest of the exoplanet program
One of the objectives of the CoRoT mission is the search for transiting extrasolar planets using high-precision photometry, and the accurate characterization of...
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PublicationCrater depth-to-diameter ratios on asteroid 162173 Ryugu d/D of craters on Ryugu
The near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu, the target of the Hayabusa2 mission, is noted to be a spinning top-shaped rubble-pile. Craters are among the most...