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most citedTesting the comet nature of main belt comets. The spectra of 133P/Elst-Pizarro and 176P/LINEAR

62 citations · 533 across the 35 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

astro-ph.EP2025★ 4 cited

Characterization of of (98943) 2001 CC, the target of Hayabusa2

Marcel M. Popescu, Eri Tatsumi, Javier Licandro +11

The near-Earth asteroid (98943) Torifune, previously designated 2001 CC, is the flyby target of the Hayabusa2 extended mission, nicknamed Hayabusa2 (SHARP: Small Hazardo…

astro-ph.EP2024

Asteroid reflectance spectra from Gaia DR3: Near-UV in primitive asteroids

F. Tinaut-Ruano, J. de León, E. Tatsumi +4

In the context of charge-coupled devices (CCDs), the ultraviolet (UV) region has mostly remained unexplored after the 1990s. Gaia DR3 offers the community a unique opportunity to e…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 4 cited

Dynamics of 2023 FW14, the second L4 Mars trojan, and a physical characterization using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias

R. de la Fuente Marcos, J. de Leon, C. de la Fuente Marcos +5

Context. Known Mars trojans could be primordial small bodies that have remained in their present-day orbits for the age of the Solar System. Their orbital distribution is strongly…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 8 cited

Pre-perihelion Monitoring of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov

George P. Prodan, Marcel Popescu, Javier Licandro +11

The discovery of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov offered the unique opportunity to obtain a detailed analysis of an object coming from another planetary system, and leaving behind ma…

astro-ph.EP2023

VLT/MUSE Characterisation of Dimorphos Ejecta from the DART Impact

Brian P. Murphy, Cyrielle Opitom, Colin Snodgrass +8

We have observed the Didymos-Dimorphos binary system with the MUSE integral field unit spectrograph mounted at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) pre and post-DART impact, and captured…

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…