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Activities for Asteroid Day
To celebrate Asteroid Day, which commemorates the impact of the Tunguska Fireball in 1908, several researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias...
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PublicationAdditional spectra of asteroid 1996 FG3, backup target of the ESA MarcoPolo-R missionContext. Near-Earth binary asteroid (175706) 1996 FG3 is the current backup target of the ESA MarcoPolo-R mission, selected for the study phase of ESA M3...
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NewsAn asteroid has been named with after IAC researcher Tania Le Pivert JolivetThe International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved the naming of asteroid (20747) Tanialepivert in honour of Tania Le Pivert Jolivet, a postdoctoral...
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GalleryAnimations asteroids, comets and meteorsAnimations made at the IAC between 2000 and 2007.
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PublicationApophis Planetary Defense CampaignWe describe results of a planetary defense exercise conducted during the close approach to Earth by the near-Earth asteroid (99942) Apophis during 2020 December...
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NewsAsteroid Bennu revealed as an active object by the NASA OSIRIS-REx missionCAPTION: Composite view of particle ejection from the surface of asteroid Bennu on January 6, 2019. This image was produced by combining two exposures taken by...
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PublicationAsteroid Lightcurves from the MOA-II Survey: a pilot studyThe Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA-II) survey has performed high cadence, wide field observations of the Galactic Bulge from New Zealand since...
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PublicationAsteroid pairs: A complex pictureWe studied a sample of 93 asteroid pairs, i.e., pairs of genetically related asteroids that are on highly similar heliocentric orbits. We estimated times...
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PublicationAsteroid reflectance spectra from Gaia DR3: Near-UV in primitive asteroidsContext. In the context of charge-coupled devices (CCDs), the ultraviolet (UV) region has mostly remained unexplored after the 1990s. Gaia DR3 offers the...