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most citedThe Main Belt Comets and Ice in the Solar System

80 citations · 260 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

astro-ph.EP2019121 cited

The Natural History of 'Oumuamua

Oumuamua ISSI Team

The discovery of the first interstellar object passing through the Solar System, 1I/2017 U1 ('Oumuamua), provoked intense and continuing interest from the scientific community and…

astro-ph.EP20192 cited

Maximizing LSST Solar System Science: Approaches, Software Tools, and Infrastructure Needs

Henry H. Hsieh, Michele T. Bannister, Bryce T. Bolin +12

The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) is expected to increase known small solar system object populations by an order of magnitude or more over the next decade, enabling a bro…

astro-ph.EP201840 cited

A rapid decrease in the rotation rate of comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák

Dennis Bodewits, Tony L. Farnham, Michael S. P. Kelley +1

Cometary outgassing can produce torques that change the spin state of the nucleus, influencing the evolution and lifetimes of comets (1,2). If these torques spin up the rotation to…

astro-ph.EP201765 cited

On the rotation period and shape of the hyperbolic asteroid 1I/`Oumuamua (2017) U1 from its lightcurve

Matthew M. Knight, Silvia Protopapa, Michael S. P. Kelley +5

We observed the newly discovered hyperbolic minor planet 1I/`Oumuamua (2017 U1) on 2017 October 30 with Lowell Observatory's 4.3-m Discovery Channel Telescope. From these observati…

astro-ph.EP201717 cited

Gemini and Lowell Observations of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko During the Rosetta Mission

Matthew M. Knight, Colin Snodgrass, Jean-Baptiste Vincent +4

We present observations of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko acquired in support of the mission. We obtained usable data on 68 nights from 2014 September until 2016 May, wi…

astro-ph.EP201717 cited

The Rotation and Other Properties of Comet 49P/Arend-Rigaux, 1984 - 2012

Nora Eisner, Matthew M. Knight, David G. Schleicher

We analyzed images of comet 49P/Arend-Rigaux on 33 nights between 2012 January and May and obtained R-band lightcurves of the nucleus. Through usual phasing of the data we found a…