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Deep Drilling Fields for Solar System Science
David E. Trilling, Michele Bannister, Cesar Fuentes +4
We propose an ecliptic Deep Drilling Field that will discover some 10,000~small and faint Kuiper Belt Objects (KBOs) --- primitive rocky/icy bodies that orbit at the outside of our…
A New High Perihelion Inner Oort Cloud Object: 2015 TG387
Scott Sheppard, Chadwick Trujillo, David Tholen +1
Inner Oort Cloud objects (IOCs) are Trans-Plutonian for their entire orbits. They are beyond the strong gravitational influences of the known planets yet close enough to the Sun th…
The 2016 Reactivations of Main-Belt Comets 238P/Read and 288P/(300163) 2006 VW139
Henry H. Hsieh, Masateru Ishiguro, Yoonyoung Kim +7
We report observations of the reactivations of main-belt comets 238P/Read and 288P/(300163) 2006 VW139, that also track the evolution of each object's activity over several months…
New Jupiter Satellites and Moon-Moon Collisions
Scott Sheppard, Gareth Williams, David Tholen +7
We report the discovery of 12 new satellites of Jupiter, giving Jupiter 79 known satellites. The new finds are between 23rd-24th mag in the r-band and 1-3 km in diameter assuming d…
SAFARI: Searching Asteroids For Activity Revealing Indicators
Colin Orion Chandler, Anthony M. Curtis, Michael Mommert +2
Active asteroids behave dynamically like asteroids but display comet-like comae. These objects are poorly understood, with only about 30 identified to date. We have conducted one o…
The Reactivation and Nucleus Characterization of Main-Belt Comet 358P/PANSTARRS (P/2012 T1)
Henry H. Hsieh, Masateru Ishiguro, Matthew M. Knight +4
We present observations of main-belt comet 358P/PANSTARRS (P/2012 T1) obtained using the Gemini South telescope from 2017 July to 2017 December, as the object approached perihelion…