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most citedJWST sighting of decameter main-belt asteroids and view on meteorite sources

19 citations · 22 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Characterization of the Volatile Properties of 133P/Elst-Pizarro and Other Main-Belt Comets with JWST and Ground-Based Observations

Henry H. Hsieh, John W. Noonan, Michael S. P. Kelley +10

We report results from an analysis of the volatile composition and evolution of main-belt comet (MBC) 133P/Elst-Pizarro using JWST NIRSpec and NIRCam observations and ground-based…

astro-ph.EP2026

Emerging Diversity Among the Main-Belt Comets: Insights from JWST and Ground-Based Observations of 457P/Lemmon-PANSTARRS

John W. Noonan, Henry H. Hsieh, Michael S. P. Kelley +10

We present JWST NIRSpec and NIRCam observations of 457P/Lemmon-PANSTARRS, a main-belt comet that displayed activity around its 2020 perihelion and that was observed to regain activ…

astro-ph.EP2026

Isotopic Evidence for a Cold and Distant Origin of the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS

Martin Cordiner, Nathan X. Roth, Marco Micheli +16

Interstellar objects provide the only directly observable samples of icy planetesimals formed around other stars, and can therefore provide insight into the diversity of physical a…

astro-ph.EP20251 cited

JWST detection of a carbon dioxide dominated gas coma surrounding interstellar object 3I/ATLAS

Martin A. Cordiner, Nathaniel X. Roth, Michael S. P. Kelley +10

3I/ATLAS is the third confirmed interstellar object to visit our Solar System, and only the second to display a clear coma. Infrared spectroscopy with the James Webb Space Telescop…

astro-ph.EP2025

Size Constraint on Hayabusa2 Extended Mission Rendezvous Target 1998~KY via VLT/VISIR Non-detection

Jin Beniyama, Thomas G. Müller, Marco Delbo +4

1998~KY is a tiny near-Earth asteroid () discovered in 1998. It has been selected as the target of the Hayabusa2 extended mission, which will rendezvous with 1998 KY…

astro-ph.EP2025

First JWST spectrum of distant activity in Long Period Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos)

Colin Snodgrass, Carrie E. Holt, Michael S. P. Kelley +10

We observed the new Long Period Comet C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos), inbound at 7 au from the Sun, using the NIRSpec integral field unit on JWST. The spectrum shows absorption features due…