An unexpected dust cloud was identified around asteroid 596 Scheila on early December 2010 [1]. Our team has been monitoring its photometric behavior in order to get clues on the nature of the outburst, and the obtained results support that the dust cloud was generated by an impact as recently suggested [2].

(596) Scheila is a large primitive asteroid observed with a comet-like apearence last December. We present near-infrared spectra (0.8-2.4 μm) obtained at different rotational phases, covering a whole rotation period of the object after the ejection event, a spectrum in the 2.2-4.0 μm region obtained in 2007, and mid-infrared photometry measured by

The role of neutron transfers is investigated in the fusion process below the Coulomb barrier by analyzing 32S+90Zr and 32S+96Zr as benchmark reactions. A full coupled-channel calculation of the fusion excitation functions has been performed for both systems by using multi-neutron transfer coupling for the more neutronrich reaction. The enhancement

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