Context. Asteroid (6478) Gault was discovered to exhibit a comet-like tail in observations from December 2018, becoming a new member of the so-called active...
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PublicaciónDust properties of double-tailed active asteroid (6478) Gault
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PublicaciónDynamical taxonomy of comets and asteroids based on the Lyapunov indicators. An analysis of the relevance of splitting
By comparison of different parameters associated with a chaotic evolution, we discuss the relation between several populations of inner Solar System bodies...
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PublicaciónDynamics of 2023 FW<SUB>14</SUB>, the second L<SUB>4</SUB> Mars trojan, and a physical characterization using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias
Context. Known Mars trojans could be primordial small bodies that have remained in their present-day orbits for the age of the Solar System. Their orbital...
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PublicaciónEarly Evolution of Disrupted Asteroid P/2016 G1 (PANSTARRS)
We present deep imaging observations of activated asteroid P/2016 G1 (PANSTARRS) using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) from 2016 late April to early...
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NoticiaEl Gran Telescopio Canarias observará el asteroide Didymos, objetivo principal de la misión espacial Hera de la ESA
El mayor telescopio óptico e infrarrojo del mundo formará parte de este proyecto espacial observando el sistema asteroidal binario Didymos para determinar el...
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NoticiaEl mejor regalo para comenzar el año: Cuadrántidas 2022
La madrugada del 4 de enero el proyecto europeo Interreg EELabs retransmitirá la lluvia de meteoros de las Cuadrántidas desde el Observatorio del Teide, del...
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PublicaciónEURONEAR: Data mining of asteroids and Near Earth Asteroids
Besides new observations, mining old photographic plates and CCD image archives represents an opportunity to recover and secure newly discovered asteroids, also...
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PublicaciónExpected spectral characteristics of (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, targets of the OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 missions
NASA's OSIRIS-REx and JAXA's Hayabusa2 sample-return missions are currently on their way to encounter primitive near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173)...
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PublicaciónExploring the nature of new main-belt comets with the 10.4 m GTC telescope: (300163) 2006 VW139
Aims: We aim to study the dust ejected by main-belt comet (MBC) (300163) 2006 VW139 to obtain information on the ejection mechanism and the spectral properties...