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The Population of Tiny Near-Earth Objects Observed by NEOWISE
A. Mainzer, J. Bauer, T. Grav +8
Only a very small fraction of the asteroid population at size scales comparable to the object that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia has been discovered to date, and physical prope…
Thermal Properties, Sizes, and Size Distribution of Jupiter-Family Cometary Nuclei
Y. R. Fernandez, M. S. Kelley, P. L. Lamy +14
We present results from SEPPCoN, an on-going Survey of the Ensemble Physical Properties of Cometary Nuclei. In this report we discuss mid-infrared measurements of the thermal emiss…
Centaurs and Scattered Disk Objects in the Thermal Infrared: Analysis of WISE/NEOWISE Observations
James M. Bauer, Tommy Grav, Erin Blauvelt +22
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) observed 52 Centaurs and Scattered Disk Objects in the thermal infrared, including the 15 discoveries that were new. We present analy…
Main-belt comets in the Palomar Transient Factory survey: I. The search for extendedness
Adam Waszczak, Eran O. Ofek, Oded Aharonson +7
Cometary activity in main-belt asteroids probes the ice content of these objects and provides clues to the history of volatiles in the inner solar system. We search the Palomar Tra…
Asteroid family identification using the Hierarchical Clustering Method and WISE/NEOWISE physical properties
Joseph R. Masiero, A. K. Mainzer, J. M. Bauer +3
Using albedos from WISE/NEOWISE to separate distinct albedo groups within the Main Belt asteroids, we apply the Hierarchical Clustering Method to these subpopulations and identify…
The Persistent Activity of Jupiter-Family Comets at 3 to 7 AU
Michael S. Kelley, Yanga R. Fernandez, Javier Licandro +14
We present an analysis of comet activity based on the Spitzer Space Telescope component of the Survey of the Ensemble Physical Properties of Cometary Nuclei. We show that the surve…