3 papers
astro-ph.EP2020
A Deep Search for Emission From "Rock Comet" (3200) Phaethon At 1 AU
Quanzhi Ye, Matthew M. Knight, Michael S. P. Kelley +3
We present a deep imaging and spectroscopic search for emission from (3200) Phaethon, a large near-Earth asteroid that appears to be the parent of the strong Geminid meteoroid stre…
astro-ph.EP2018
In Search of Recent Disruption of (3200) Phaethon: Model Implication and Hubble Space Telescope Search
Quanzhi Ye, Paul A. Wiegert, Man-To Hui
Near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon is notable for its association to a strong annual meteor shower, the Geminids, indicative of one or more episodes of mass ejection in the past.…
astro-ph.EP2018
Finding Long Lost Lexell's Comet: The Fate of the First Discovered Near-Earth Object
Quan-Zhi Ye, Paul A. Wiegert, Man-To Hui
Jupiter-family Comet D/1770 L1 (Lexell) was the first discovered Near-Earth Object (NEO), and passed the Earth on 1770 Jul 1 at a recorded distance of 0.015 au. The comet was subse…