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most citedOptical observations of NEA 3200 Phaethon (1983 TB) during the 2017 apparition

20 citations · 120 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.EP2025★ 6 cited

Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au

Ying-Tung Chen, Patryk Sofia Lykawka, Yukun Huang +30

Trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) with large perihelion distances ( au) and semi-major axes ( au) provide insights into the early evolution of the solar system and th…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 1 cited

Photometry of the Didymos system across the DART impact apparition

Nicholas Moskovitz, Cristina Thomas, Petr Pravec +78

On 26 September 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted Dimorphos, the satellite of binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos. This demonstrated the…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 5 cited

A new approach to feature-based asteroid taxonomy in 3D color space: 1. SDSS photometric system

Dong-Goo Roh, Hong-Kyu Moon, Min-Su Shin +1

The taxonomic classification of asteroids has been mostly based on spectroscopic observations with wavelengths spanning from the VIS to the NIR. VIS-NIR spectra of 2500 aster…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 18 cited

Rotation acceleration of asteroids (10115) 1992 SK, (1685) Toro, and (1620) Geographos due to the YORP effect

J. Durech, D. Vokrouhlicky, P. Pravec +28

The rotation state of small asteroids is affected by the Yarkovsky-O'Keefe-Radzievskii-Paddack (YORP) effect, which is a net torque caused by solar radiation directly reflected and…

astro-ph.EP2021

FOSSIL: I. The Spin Rate Limit of Jupiter Trojans

Chan-Kao Chang, Ying-Tung Chen, Wesley C. Fraser +25

Rotation periods of 53 small (diameters km) Jupiter Trojans (JTs) were derived using the high-cadence light curves obtained by the FOSSIL phase I survey, a Subaru/Hype…

astro-ph.EP2020★ 11 cited

Spin Change of Asteroid 2012 TC4 probably by Radiation Torques

Hee-Jae Lee, Josef Ďurech, David Vokrouhlický +9

Asteroid 2012 TC4 is a small (10 m) near-Earth object that was observed during its Earth close approaches in 2012 and 2017. Earlier analyses of light curves revealed its exci…