Astrophysical: Asteroids

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    New observations of asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3, primary target of the ESA Marco Polo-R mission
    Context. Near-Earth asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3 is the primary target of the ESA Marco Polo-R mission, which was selected for the assessment study phase of ESA...
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    New polarimetric and spectroscopic evidence of anomalous enrichment in spinel-bearing calcium-aluminium-rich inclusions among L-type asteroids
    Asteroids can be classified into several groups based on their spectral reflectance. Among these groups, the one belonging to the L-class in the taxonomic...
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    Non-Vestoid candidate asteroids in the inner main belt
    Context. Most howardite-eucrite-diogenite (HED) meteorites (analogues to V-type asteroids) are thought to originate from the asteroid (4) Vesta. However some...
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    Non-Vestoid candidate asteroids in the inner main belt (Corrigendum)
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    Numerical modeling of lander interaction with a low-gravity asteroid regolith surface. II. Interpreting the successful landing of Hayabusa2 MASCOT
    Context. The JAXA asteroid sample return mission Hayabusa2 reached its target (162173) Ryugu in June 2018 and released the European (CNES-DLR) lander MASCOT in...
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    Observations of two superfast rotator NEAs: 2021 NY<SUB>1</SUB> and 2022 AB
    In the framework of the visible NEAs observations survey (ViNOS) that uses several telescopes at the Canary Islands observatories since 2018, we observed two...
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    Observations, compositional, and physical characterization of near-Earth and Mars-crosser asteroids from a spectroscopic survey
    Aims: We analyse a significantly large sample of spectroscopic data to provide a compositional characterization of the near-Earth asteroid population. We...
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    On the Dust Environment of Main-Belt Comet 313P/Gibbs
    We present observations carried out using the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and an interpretative model of the dust environment of activated asteroid 313 P...
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    Once in a blue moon: detection of `bluing' during debris transits in the white dwarf WD 1145+017
    The first transiting planetesimal orbiting a white dwarf was recently detected in K2 data of WD 1145+017 and has been followed up intensively. The multiple...