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(704) Interamnia: A transitional object between a dwarf planet and a typical irregular-shaped minor body
J. Hanuš, P. Vernazza, M. Viikinkoski +56
With an estimated diameter in the 320 to 350 km range, (704) Interamnia is the fifth largest main belt asteroid and one of the few bodies that fills the gap in size between the fou…
Active asteroid (6478) Gault: a blue Q-type surface below the dust?
Michael Marsset, Francesca DeMeo, Adrian Sonka +6
We present near-infrared spectroscopy of the sporadically active asteroid (6478) Gault collected on the 3 m NASA/Infrared Telescope Facility observatory in late 2019 March/early Ap…
The shape of (7) Iris as evidence of an ancient large impact?
J. Hanuš, M. Marsset, P. Vernazza +35
Asteroid (7) Iris is an ideal target for disk-resolved imaging owing to its brightness (V7-8) and large angular size of 0.33 arcsec during its apparitions. Iris is believed t…
Closing the gap between Earth-based and interplanetary mission observations: Vesta seen by VLT/SPHERE
R. JL. Fétick, L. Jorda, P. Vernazza +34
Context. Over the past decades, several interplanetary missions have studied small bodies in situ, leading to major advances in our understanding of their geological and geophysica…
The homogeneous internal structure of CM-like asteroid (41) Daphne
B. Carry, F. Vachier, J. Berthier +48
Context. CM-like asteroids (Ch and Cgh classes) are a major population within the broader C-complex, encompassing about 10% of the mass of the main asteroid belt. Their internal st…