Context. Dynamically, 133P/Elst-Pizarro and 176P/LINEAR are main belt asteroids, likely members of the Themis collisional family, and unlikely of cometary...
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PublicaciónTesting the comet nature of main belt comets. The spectra of 133P/Elst-Pizarro and 176P/LINEAR
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PublicaciónThe 1991 outburst of Comet P/Metcalf-Brewington: A study of the light curve
The light curve of the outburst of Comet P/Metcalf-Brewington (1991 I) is investigated. The parameters of the light curve are quite uncertain as it may be...
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PublicaciónThe 99942 Apophis observational campaign at the Canary Islands observatories during its 2021 close approach: preliminary results
Potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) 99942 Apophis, with a diameter 380-393 m (Licandro et al. 2016), came to its 2021 close approach on March 6, 2021, at 01:06...
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PublicaciónThe active centaur 2020 MK<SUB>4</SUB>
Context. Centaurs go around the Sun between the orbits of Jupiter and Neptune. Only a fraction of the known centaurs have been found to display comet-like...
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PublicaciónThe binary near-Earth Asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3 - An observational constraint on its orbital evolution
Using our photometric observations taken between April 1996 and January 2013 and other published data, we derived properties of the binary near-Earth Asteroid...
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PublicaciónThe Castalia mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro
We describe Castalia, a proposed mission to rendezvous with a Main Belt Comet (MBC), 133P/Elst-Pizarro. MBCs are a recently discovered population of apparently...
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PublicaciónThe descent and bouncing path of the Hayabusa2 lander MASCOT at asteroid (162173) Ryugu
Images from the Optical Navigation Camera system (ONC) onboard the Hayabusa2 spacecraft show the MASCOT lander during its descent to the surface of asteroid...
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PublicaciónThe Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra)
We present a model of the dust environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra) from images acquired during the period 2010 October-2011 January. The tails...
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PublicaciónThe Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS)
The Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS) has been imaged using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the 4.2 m William Herschel Telescope at six epochs in...