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most citedCatastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense

14 citations · 21 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.EP20264 cited

Astrometric follow-up of near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 during a Torino scale level 3 alert

Marco Micheli, Maxime Devogèle, Larry Denneau +38

The discovery of 2024 YR4 presented the planetary defense community with the most significant impact threat in almost two decades, reaching level 3 on the Torino scale. The communi…

astro-ph.EP202514 cited

Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defense

Auriane Egal, Denis Vida, François Colas +94

Mitigation of the threat from airbursting asteroids requires an understanding of the potential risk they pose for the ground. How asteroids release their kinetic energy in the atmo…

astro-ph.IM2025

Space Mission Options for Reconnaissance and Mitigation of Asteroid 2024 YR4

Brent W. Barbee, Matthew A. Vavrina, Rylie Bull +17

Near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 was discovered on 2024-12-27 and its probability of Earth impact in December 2032 peaked at about 3% on 2025-02-18. Additional observations ruled out E…

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.EP20251 cited

Discovery and Preliminary Characterization of a Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLAS

Darryl Z. Seligman, Marco Micheli, Davide Farnocchia +44

We report initial observations aimed at the characterization of a third interstellar object. This object, 3I/ATLAS or C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), was discovered on 2025 July 1 UT and has an…

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…