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Detailed Characterization of Low Activity Comet 49P/Arend-Rigaux
Laurie E. U. Chu, Karen J. Meech, Tony L. Farnham +6
Comet 49P/Arend-Rigaux is a well known low-activity Jupiter Family comet. Despite the low activity, we have witnessed outgassing activity in 1992, 2004, and 2012. In 2012 a broad t…
2I/Borisov: A C depleted interstellar comet
C. Opitom, A. Fitzsimmons, E. Jehin +9
The discovery of the first active interstellar object 2I/Borisov provides an unprecedented opportunity to study planetary formation processes in another planetary system. In partic…
Detection of CN gas in Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov
Alan Fitzsimmons, Olivier Hainaut, Karen Meech +8
The detection of Interstellar Objects passing through the Solar System offers the promise of constraining the physical and chemical processes involved in planetary formation in oth…
Disintegration of Active Asteroid P/2016 G1 (PANSTARRS)
Olivier R. Hainaut, Jan T. Kleyna, Karen J. Meech +7
We report on the catastrophic disintegration of P/2016 G1 (PANSTARRS), an active asteroid, in April 2016. Deep images over three months show that object is constituted by a central…
The Sporadic Activity of (6478) Gault: A YORP-driven event?
Jan T. Kleyna, Olivier R. Hainaut, Karen J. Meech +15
On 2019 January 5 a streamer associated with the 4--10 km main-belt asteroid (6478)~Gault was detected by the ATLAS sky survey, a rare discovery of activity around a main-belt aste…