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Gaia and IRTF abundance of A-type main belt asteroids
Marco Delbo, Chrysa Avdellidou, Marjorie Galinier +4
The Missing Mantle Problem refers to the apparent scarcity of olivine rich (A-type) asteroids in the main belt, despite expectations that such bodies should be common if differenti…
Very Large Telescope Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS. II. From Quiescence to Glow: Dramatic Rise of Ni i Emission and Incipient CN Outgassing at Large Heliocentric Distances*
Rohan Rahatgaonkar, Juan Pablo Carvajal, Thomas H. Puzia +25
We report VLT spectroscopy of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025~N1) from to ~au using X-shooter (300--550\,nm, ) and UVES (opt…
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: discovery and physical description
Bryce T. Bolin, Matthew Belyakov, Christoffer Fremling +18
We describe the physical characteristics of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, discovered on 2025 July 1 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System. The comet has eccentricity,…
Palomar and Apache Point Spectrophotometry of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS
Matthew Belyakov, Christoffer Fremling, Matthew J. Graham +7
On July 1st 2025 the third interstellar object, 3I/ATLAS or C/2025 N1 (ATLAS), was discovered, with an eccentricity of and perihelion of au. We…
Multi-epoch spectro-photometric characterization of the minimoon 2024 PT in the visible and near-infrared
Jin Beniyama, Bryce T. Bolin, Alexey V. Sergeyev +5
2024 PT is a tiny ( m) near-Earth asteroid (NEA) discovered in August 2024. 2024 PT was gravitationally bound to the Earth-Moon system from September to November 2…
NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Observations of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS (C/2025 N1)
Colin Orion Chandler, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Mario Jurić +305
We report on the observation and measurement of astrometry, photometry, morphology, and activityof the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, also designated C/2025 N1 (ATLAS) with the NSF-…