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ASTERIA -- Thermal Inertia Evaluation of asteroid Didymos
Bojan Novakovic, Marco Fenucci
Asteroid Didymos, recently targeted by the NASA DART mission, is also planned to be visited by the ESA Hera mission. The main goal of the DART mission was to impact Dimorphos, the…
Photometric and dynamic characterisation of active asteroid (248370) 2005 QN173
Bojan Novakovic, Debora Pavela, Henry H. Hsieh +1
We present the physical and dynamical properties of the recently discovered active asteroid (248370) 2005 QN173 (aka 433P). From our observations, we derived two possible rotation…
Asteroid Families: properties, recent advances and future opportunities
Bojan Novakovic, David Vokrouhlicky, Federica Spoto +1
Collisions are one of the key processes shaping planetary systems. Asteroid families are outcomes of such collisions still identifiable across our solar system. The families provid…
The role of the Yarkovsky effect in the long-term dynamics of asteroid (469219) Kamo'oalewa
Marco Fenucci, Bojan Novaković
Near-Earth asteroid (469219) Kamo'oalewa (aka 2016 HO3) is an Earth co-orbital and a potential space mission target. Its short-term dynamics is characterized by a periodic switchin…
The Transient Jupiter Trojan-Like Orbit of P/2019 LD2 (ATLAS)
Henry H. Hsieh, Alan Fitzsimmons, Bojan Novakovic +2
Comet P/2019 LD2 has orbital elements currently resembling those of a Jupiter Trojan, and therefore superficially appears to represent a unique opportunity to study the volatile co…
Retrograde orbits excess among observable interstellar objects
Dusan Marceta, Bojan Novakovic
In this work we investigate the orbital distribution of interstellar objects (ISOs), observable by the future wide-field National Science Foundation Vera C. Rubin Observatory (VRO)…
Potential Themis Family Asteroid Contribution to the Jupiter-Family Comet Population
Henry H. Hsieh, Bojan Novakovic, Kevin J. Walsh +1
Recent dynamical analyses suggest that some Jupiter family comets (JFCs) may originate in the main asteroid belt instead of the outer solar system. This possibility is particularly…
Discovery of four young asteroid families
Bojan Novakovic, Viktor Radovic
A specially interesting subgroup of asteroid families are young ones, i.e. those formed less than 10 Myrs ago. They have attracted a lot of attention since the first such family ha…
P/2017 S5: Another Active Asteroid Associated with the Theobalda Family
Bojan Novakovic
In this note we have shown that a newly discovered comet P/2017 S5 (ATLAS), that moves around the Sun in an asteroid-like orbit, is a member of the Theobalda asteroid family.
Asteroid Family Associations of Active Asteroids
Henry H. Hsieh, Bojan Novakovic, Yoonyoung Kim +1
We report on the results of a systematic search for associated asteroid families for all active asteroids known to date. We find that 10 out of 12 main-belt comets (MBCs) and 5 out…
A dark asteroid family in the Phocaea region
Bojan Novakovic, Georgios Tsirvoulis, Mikael Granvik +1
We report the discovery of a new asteroid family among the dark asteroids residing in the Phocaea region the Tamara family. We make use of available physical data to separate aster…
The splitting of double-component active asteroid P/2016 J1 (PANSTARRS)
Fernando Moreno, Francisco Pozuelos, Bojan Novakovic +20
We present deep imaging observations, orbital dynamics, and dust tail model analyses of the double-component asteroid P/2016 J1 (J1-A and J1-B). The observations were acquired at t…
Secular resonances with Ceres and Vesta
Georgios Tsirvoulis, Bojan Novakovic
In this work we explore dynamical perturbations induced by the massive asteroids Ceres and Vesta on main-belt asteroids through secular resonances. First we determine the location…
Secular evolution of asteroid families: the role of Ceres
Bojan Novakovic, Georgios Tsirvoulis, Stefano Maro +2
We consider the role of the dwarf planet Ceres on the secular dynamics of the asteroid main belt. Specifically, we examine the post impact evolution of asteroid families due to the…
Sublimation-Driven Activity in Main-Belt Comet 313P/Gibbs
Henry H. Hsieh, Olivier Hainaut, Bojan Novakovic +15
We present an observational and dynamical study of newly discovered main-belt comet 313P/Gibbs. We find that the object is clearly active both in observations obtained in 2014 and…
Asteroid families classification: exploiting very large data sets
Andrea Milani, Alberto Cellino, Zoran Knezevic +3
The number of asteroids with accurately determined orbits increases fast. The catalogs of asteroid physical observations have also increased, although the number of objects is stil…
Discovery of a young asteroid cluster associated with P/2012~F5 (Gibbs)
Bojan Novakovic, Henry H. Hsieh, Alberto Cellino +2
We present the results of our search for a dynamical family around the active asteroid P/2012F5 (Gibbs). By applying the hierarchical clustering method, we discover an extremely co…
Main-Belt Comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS)
Henry H. Hsieh, Heather M. Kaluna, Bojan Novakovic +25
We present initial results from observations and numerical analyses aimed at characterizing main-belt comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS). Optical monitoring observations were made between…
Recent collisional jet from a primitive asteroid
Bojan Novakovic, Aldo Dell'Oro, Alberto Cellino +1
Here we show an example of a young asteroid cluster located in a dynamically stable region, which was produced by partial disruption of a primitive body about 30 km in size. We est…
P/2006 VW139: A Main-Belt Comet Born in an Asteroid Collision?
Bojan Novakovic, Henry H. Hsieh, Alberto Cellino
In this paper we apply different methods to examine the possibility that a small group of 24 asteroids dynamically linked to main-belt comet P/2006 VW139, recently discovered by th…
Discovery of Main-Belt Comet P/2006 VW139 by Pan-STARRS1
Henry H. Hsieh, Bin Yang, Nader Haghighipour +39
Main belt asteroid (300163) 2006 VW139 (later designated P/2006 VW139) was discovered to exhibit comet-like activity by the Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope using automated point-sprea…
Observational and Dynamical Characterization of Main-Belt Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra)
Henry H. Hsieh, Bin Yang, Nader Haghighipour +36
We present observations of comet-like main-belt object P/2010 R2 (La Sagra) obtained by Pan-STARRS 1 and the Faulkes Telescope-North on Haleakala in Hawaii, the University of Hawai…
Families among high-inclination asteroids
Bojan Novakovic, Alberto Cellino, Zoran Knezevic
We present a new classification of families identified among the population of high-inclination asteroids. We computed synthetic proper elements for a sample of 18,560 numbered and…
Portrait of Theobalda as a Young Asteroid Family
Bojan Novakovic
The (778) Theobalda asteroid family attracted little attention so far, but our study shows that it is important in several aspects. In this paper we investigate the origin and evol…