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Size-Based Spectrophotometric Analysis of the Polana-Eulalia Complex
Lucas McClure, Josh Emery, Cristina Thomas +2
The Polana-Eulalia Complex (PEC) is an Inner Main Belt, C-complex asteroid population that may be the source of the near-Earth asteroid spacecraft mission targets (101955) Bennu an…
Hayabusa-2 Mission Target Asteroid 162173 Ryugu (1999 JU3): Searching for the Object's Spin-Axis Orientation
T. G. Müller, J. Ďurech, M. Ishiguro +27
The JAXA Hayabusa-2 mission was approved in 2010 and launched on December 3, 2014. The spacecraft will arrive at the near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in 2018 where it will perform…
Near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon. Characterization of its orbit, spin state, and thermophysical parameters
J. Hanus, M. Delbo, D. Vokrouhlicky +15
The near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon is an intriguing object: its perihelion is at only 0.14 au and is associated with the Geminid meteor stream. We aim to use all available dis…
Characteristics and Large Bulk Density of the C-type Main-Belt Triple Asteroid (93) Minerva
F. Marchis, F. Vachier, J. Ďurech +11
From a set of adaptive optics (AO) observations collected with the W.M. Keck telescope between August and September 2009, we derived the orbital parameters of the most recently dis…
ExploreNEOs I: Description and first results from the Warm Spitzer NEO Survey
D. E. Trilling, M. Mueller, J. L. Hora +13
We have begun the ExploreNEOs project in which we observe some 700 Near Earth Objects (NEOs) at 3.6 and 4.5 microns with the Spitzer Space Telescope in its Warm Spitzer mode. From…