Publications (10)
Stratospheric balloons as a platform for the next large far infrared observatory
Philipp Maier, Jürgen Wolf, Alfred Krabbe +21
Observations that require large physical instrument dimensions and/or a considerable amount of cryogens, as it is the case for high spatial resolution far infrared (FIR) astronomy,…
ASIME 2016 White Paper: In-Space Utilisation of Asteroids: "Answers to Questions from the Asteroid Miners"
Amara L. Graps, Philippe Blondel, Grant Bonin +28
The aim of the Asteroid Science Intersections with In-Space Mine Engineering (ASIME) 2016 conference on September 21-22, 2016 in Luxembourg City was to provide an environment for t…
The Discovery and Evolution of a Possible New Epoch of Cometary Activity by the Centaur (2060) Chiron
Matthew M. Dobson, Megan E. Schwamb, Alan Fitzsimmons +24
Centaurs are small Solar System objects on chaotic orbits in the giant planet region, forming an evolutionary continuum with the Kuiper belt objects and Jupiter-family comets. Some…
The determination of asteroid H and G phase function parameters using GAIA DR2
Milagros Colazo, Rene Duffard, Walter Weidmann
The Gaia mission will provide the scientific community with high-quality observations of asteroids of all categories. The second release of Gaia data (DR2) was published in 2018 an…
Results from the 2014 November 15th multi-chord stellar occultation by the TNO (229762) 2007 UK
Gustavo Benedetti-Rossi, Bruno Sicardy, Marc W. Buie +26
We present results derived from the first multi-chord stellar occultation by the trans-Neptunian object (229762) 2007 UK, observed on 2014 November 15. The event was observ…
Short-term variability of comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) at 4.8 AU from the Sun
Pablo Santos-Sanz, José Luis Ortiz, Nicolás Morales +4
We observed comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) during six nights in February 2013 when it was at 4.8 AU from the sun. At this distance and time the comet was not very active and it was theoret…