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New Horizons: Anticipated Scientific Investigations at the Pluto System
Leslie A. Young, S. Alan Stern, Harold A. Weaver +24
The New Horizons spacecraft will achieve a wide range of measurement objectives at the Pluto system, including color and panchromatic maps, 1.25-2.50 micron spectral images for stu…
Composition of the L5 Mars Trojans: Neighbors, not Siblings
Andrew S. Rivkin, David E. Trilling, Cristina A. Thomas +3
Mars is the only terrestrial planet known to have Tro jan (co-orbiting) asteroids, with a confirmed population of at least 4 objects. The origin of these objects is not known; whil…
Comet 162P/Siding Spring: A Surprisingly Large Nucleus
Y. R. Fernandez, H. Campins, M. Kassis +5
We present an analysis of thermal emission from comet 162P/Siding Spring (P/2004 TU12) measured during its discovery apparition in 2004 December. The comet showed no dust coma at t…
Near-IR spectroscopy of asteroids 21 Lutetia, 89 Julia, 140 Siwa, 2181 Fogelin, and 5480 (1989YK8), potential targets for the Rosetta mission; remote observations campaign on IRTF
Mirel Birlan, Schelte J. Bus, Irina Belskaya +5
In the frame of the international campaign to observe potential target asteroids for the Rosetta mission, remote observations have been carried out between Observatoire de Paris, i…
Analysis of the First Disk-Resolved Images of Ceres from Ultraviolet Observations with the Hubble Space Telescope
Joel Wm. Parker, S. Alan Stern, Peter C. Thomas +5
We present HST Faint Object Camera observations of the asteroid 1 Ceres at near-, mid-, and far-UV wavelengths (lambda = 3636, 2795, and 1621 A, respectively) obtained on 1995 June…