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Actividades por el Día del Asteroide
Con motivo de esta celebración, que conmemora el impacto del bólido de Tunguska en 1908, varios investigadores del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)...
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PublicaciónAdditional spectra of asteroid 1996 FG3, backup target of the ESA MarcoPolo-R missionContext. Near-Earth binary asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3 is the current backup target of the ESA MarcoPolo-R mission, selected for the study phase of ESA M3...
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GaleríaAnimaciones asteroides, cometas y meteorosAnimaciones hechas en el IAC entre 2000 y 2007.
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PublicaciónApophis Planetary Defense CampaignWe describe results of a planetary defense exercise conducted during the close approach to Earth by the near-Earth asteroid (99942) Apophis during 2020 December...
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PublicaciónAsteroid Lightcurves from the MOA-II Survey: a pilot studyThe Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA-II) survey has performed high cadence, wide field observations of the Galactic Bulge from New Zealand since...
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PublicaciónAsteroid pairs: A complex pictureWe 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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PublicaciónAsteroid reflectance spectra from Gaia DR3: Near-UV in primitive asteroidsContext. In the context of charge-coupled devices (CCDs), the ultraviolet (UV) region has mostly remained unexplored after the 1990s. Gaia DR3 offers the...
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PublicaciónAsteroid sizes determined with thermophysical model and stellar occultationsContext. The sizes of many asteroids, especially slowly rotating, low-amplitude targets, remain poorly constrained due to selection effects. These biases limit...
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PublicaciónAsteroids' reflectance from Gaia DR3: Artificial reddening at near-UV wavelengthsContext. Observational and instrumental difficulties observing small bodies below 0.5 μm make this wavelength range poorly studied compared with the visible and...