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Early intrafamily collisions in newly formed asteroid families
Roberto Balossi, Paolo Tanga, Aldo Dell'Oro
The dynamical and physical properties of asteroid family members are widely used to reconstruct the collisional evolution of the main belt and of individual objects. Families offer…
New asteroid clusters and evidence of collisional fragmentation in the L5 Trojan cloud of Mars
Apostolos A. Christou, Nikos Georgakarakos, Matija Cuk +3
Context. Trojan asteroids of Mars date from an early phase of solar system evolution. Based on a sample of <10 asteroids, MT distribution has been previously shown to be both asymm…
Composition and origin of L5 Trojan asteroids of Mars: Insights from spectroscopy
Apostolos A. Christou, Galin Borisov, Aldo Dell'Oro +2
We investigate the mineralogy of L5 Martian Trojan asteroids via reflectance spectroscopy, in particular (101429) 1998 $\mbox{VF}_{31}$, the only L5 Trojan that does not belong to…
Potential asteroid discoveries by the ESA Gaia mission: Results from follow-up observations
B. Carry, W. Thuillot, F. Spoto +42
Since July 2014, the ESA Gaia mission has been surveying the entire sky down to magnitude 20.7 in the visible. In addition to the millions of stars, thousands of Solar System Objec…
Population control of Mars Trojans by the Yarkovsky & YORP effects
Apostolos A. Christou, Galin Borisov, Aldo Dell'Oro +3
We explore the hypothesis that the population of Martian Trojans is the result of a balance between the production of new asteroids ("YORPlets") through the YORP effect and their e…
(121514) 1999 UJ7: A primitive, slow-rotating Martian Trojan
G. Borisov, A. A. Christou, F. Colas +3
Aims. The goal of this investigation is to determine the origin and surface composition of the asteroid (121514) 1999 UJ7, the only currently known L4 Martian Trojan asteroid. Meth…