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Publications (13)

astro-ph.EP2021

Widely distributed exogenic materials of varying compositions and morphologies on asteroid (101955) Bennu

Eri Tatsumi, Marcel Popescu, Humberto Campins +8

Using the multi-band imager MapCam onboard the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft, we identified 77 i…

astro-ph.EP2021

Astrocladistics of the Jovian Trojan Swarms

Timothy R. Holt, Jonathan Horner, David Nesvorný +4

The Jovian Trojans are two swarms of small objects that share Jupiter's orbit, clustered around the leading and trailing Lagrange points, L and L. In this work, we investig…

astro-ph.EP2020

Spectral characterisation of 14 V-type candidate asteroids from the MOVIS catalogue

Pavol Matlovič, Julia de Leon, Hissa Medeiros +3

Most of the currently known basaltic (V-type) asteroids are believed to be past or present members of the Vesta dynamical family. The rising discoveries of V-type asteroids that ar…

astro-ph.EP2022

Spectral analysis of basaltic asteroids observed by the Gaia space mission

Dagmara Oszkiewicz, Hanna Klimczak, Benoit Carry +4

There is a great deal of scientific interest in characterizing the basaltic asteroids (spectrally classified as V-types), as they are the key to understanding planetesimal formatio…

astro-ph.EP2023

Long-lasting activity of asteroid (248370) 2005 QN 173

Oleksandra Ivanova, Javier Licandro, Fernando Moreno +8

We present the results of observations of asteroid (248370) QN obtained during July 2021 - January 2022 with three telescopes. Our analysis revealed the presence of the dus…

astro-ph.EP2022

Hubble Asteroid Hunter: I. Identifying asteroid trails in Hubble Space Telescope images

Sandor Kruk, Pablo García Martín, Marcel Popescu +11

Large and publicly available astronomical archives open up new possibilities to search and study Solar System objects. However, advanced techniques are required to deal with the la…