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astro-ph.EP2025

Estimates of Rotation Periods for Jupiter Trojans with the Zwicky Transient Facility Photometric Lightcurves

Zhuofu Li, Yasin A. Chowdhury, Željko Ivezić +12

We present new rotational period estimates for 216 Jupiter Trojans using photometric data from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), including 80 Trojans with previously unknown per…

astro-ph.EP2025

An Extremely Deep Rubin Survey to Explore the Extended Kuiper Belt and Identify Objects Observable by New Horizons

JJ Kavelaars, Marc W. Buie, Wesley C. Fraser +22

A proposed Vera C. Rubin Observatory Deep Drilling micro-survey of the Kuiper Belt will investigate key properties of the distant solar system. Utilizing 30 hours of Rubin time acr…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 30 cited

Earth's Minimoons: Opportunities for Science and Technology

Robert Jedicke, Bryce T. Bolin, William F. Bottke +5

(modified from published version) Twelve years ago the Catalina Sky Survey discovered Earth's first known natural geocentric object other than the Moon, a few-meter diameter astero…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 4 cited

Simultaneous LSST and Euclid observations - advantages for Solar System Objects

C. Snodgrass, B. Carry, J. Berthier +17

The ESA Euclid mission is a space telescope that will survey ~15,000 square degrees of the sky, primarily to study the distant universe (constraining cosmological parameters throug…

astro-ph.EP2012★ 87 cited

Ensemble Properties of Comets in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Michael Solontoi, Zeljko Ivezic, Mario Juric +10

We present the ensemble properties of 31 comets (27 resolved and 4 unresolved) observed by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). This sample of comets represents about 1 comet per 1…

astro-ph.EP2011★ 83 cited

Characterization of Seven Ultra-Wide Trans-Neptunian Binaries

Alex H. Parker, JJ. Kavelaars, Jean-Marc Petit +3

The low-inclination component of the Classical Kuiper Belt is host to a population of extremely widely-separated binaries. These systems are similar to other Trans-Neptunian binari…