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Amateur telescopes discover a kilometre-sized Kuiper belt object from stellar occultation
K. Arimatsu, K. Tsumura, F. Usui +7
Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) are thought to be the remnant of the early solar system, and their size distribution provides an opportunity to explore the formation and evolution of th…
Unidentified Infrared Emission Features in Mid-infrared Spectrum of Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner
Takafumi Ootsubo, Hideyo Kawakita, Yoshiharu Shinnaka +2
Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner (hereafter, comet 21P/G-Z) is a Jupiter-family comet and a parent comet of the October Draconids meteor shower. If meteoroids originating from a Jupiter-…
Comet 66P/du Toit: not a near Earth main belt comet
B. Yang, E. Jehin, F. J. Pozuelos +6
Main belt comets (MBCs) are a peculiar class of volatile-containing objects with comet-like morphology and asteroid-like orbits. However, MBCs are challenging targets to study remo…
Possibility of Concentration of Non-volatile Species near the Surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Taiki Suzuki, Yoshiharu Shinnaka, Liton Majumdar +4
The cometary materials are thought to be the reservoir of primitive materials in the Solar System. The recent detection of glycine and CHNH by the ROSINA mass spectrometer…