Publications (13)
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…
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…
Spectral characterisation of 14 V-type candidate asteroids from the MOVIS catalogue
Pavol MatloviÄ, 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…
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…
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…
Hubble Asteroid Hunter: I. Identifying asteroid trails in Hubble Space Telescope images
Sandor Kruk, Pablo GarcÃa MartÃn, 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…