4 papers
The Large Smooth Patch on Comet 9P/Tempel 1: Remnant of a Recent Past Event
J. L. Rizos, T. L. Farnham, J. Kloos +2
We present a comprehensive reassessment of the region containing the large smooth patch on comet 9P/Tempel 1, leveraging data from the Deep Impact and Stardust-NExT missions, an up…
A Search for the Lost Comet P/2010 H2 (Vales)
Quanzhi Ye, Tony L. Farnham, Perry Cai +1
Short-period comet P/2010 H2 (Vales) underwent a significant outburst of ~mag in 2010 and has not been detected since that apparition. Here we report our recovery attempt of…
High-Speed Boulders and the Debris Field in DART Ejecta
Tony L. Farnham, Jessica M. Sunshine, Masatoshi Hirabayashi +44
On 26 September 2022 the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, the moon of the near-Earth asteroid 65803 Didymos, in a full-scale demonstratio…
New Candidates for Organic-rich Regions on Ceres
J. L. Rizos, J. M. Sunshine, R. T. Daly +7
We explore the spatial distribution of organics on Ceres using the visible and near-infrared data collected by the Dawn mission. We employ a spectral mixture analysis (SMA) approac…