Publications (6)
High Precision Astrometry in Asteroid Mitigation - the NEOShield Perspective
Siegfried Eggl, Anatoliy Ivantsov, Daniel Hestroffer +3
Among the currently known Near Earth Objects (NEOs), roughly 1400 are classified as being potentially hazardous asteroids. The recent Chelyabinsk event has shown that these objects…
New evidence supporting past dust ejections from active asteroid (4015) Wilson-Harrington
Sunho Jin, Masateru Ishiguro, Jooyeon Geem +15
Context. (4015) Wilson-Harrington (hereafter, WH) was discovered as a comet in 1949 but has a dynamical property consistent with that of a near-Earth asteroid. Although there is a…
A spectroscopic survey of the small near-Earth asteroid population: peculiar taxonomic distribution and phase reddening
Davide Perna, Maria Antonietta Barucci, Marcello Fulchignoni +6
We present the results of the first-ever visible spectroscopic survey fully dedicated to the small (absolute magnitude H>20) near-Earth asteroid (NEA) population. Observations have…
Rapid-response characterization of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 during a Torino Scale 3 alert
Maxime Devogèle, Olivier R. Hainaut, Marco Micheli +32
On 27 December 2024, near-Earth object (NEO) 2024 YR was discovered by the ATLAS survey and identified as a virtual impactor. A few weeks later, it eventually reached level 3 o…
Momentum Transfer from the DART Mission Kinetic Impact on Asteroid Dimorphos
Andrew F. Cheng, Harrison F. Agrusa, Brent W. Barbee +66
The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission performed a kinetic impact on asteroid Dimorphos, the satellite of the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos, at 23:14 UTC on Sep…
Rotationally-resolved spectroscopy of Jupiter Trojans (624) Hektor and (911) Agamemnon
Davide Perna, Nicolas Bott, Tetiana Hromakina +3
We present the first-ever rotationally resolved spectroscopic investigation of (624) Hektor and (911) Agamemnon, the two largest Jupiter Trojans. The visible and near-infrared spec…