Astrophysical: Asteroids

  • Event
    #AsteroidDay 2020
    For the past four years, Asteroid Day has been celebrated on 30 June to make society aware of the potential risk of asteroid impacts on the Earth and to learn...
  • Publication
    (596) Scheila in Outburst: A Probable Collision Event in the Main Asteroid Belt
    Images of asteroid (596) Scheila have been acquired at various dates after the discovery of the 2010 outburst. Assuming a short-duration event scenario, as...
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    (65) Cybele: detection of small silicate grains, water-ice, and organics
    Context. (65) Cybele is the most representative member of a population of primitive asteroids in the outer edge of the main belt, the Cybele asteroids. Recent...
  • News
    2023 DZ2 asteroid will not collide with Earth, study finds
    An international scientific team, in which researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participate, confirms that the asteroid, discovered...
  • Publication
    2023 DZ2 Planetary Defense Campaign
    We present the results of a fourth planetary defense exercise, focused this time on the small near-Earth asteroid (NEA) 2023 DZ2 and conducted during its close...
  • Publication
    280 one-opposition near-Earth asteroids recovered by the EURONEAR with the Isaac Newton Telescope
    Context. One-opposition near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are growing in number, and they must be recovered to prevent loss and mismatch risk, and to improve their...
  • Publication
    5-14 μm Spitzer spectra of Themis family asteroids
    Context. The Themis collisional family is one of the largest and best established families in the main belt. Composed of primitive asteroids, there is evidence...
  • Publication
    A comparative analysis of the outer-belt primitive families
    Context. Asteroid families are witnesses to the intense collisional evolution that occurred on the asteroid belt. The study of the physical properties of family...