Astrophysical: Minor planets

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    (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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    A comprehensive study of the opposition effect on 15 NEOs
    We report the results we derived analyzing photometric measurements obtained at different phase angles for 15 Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), observed from Campo...
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    A dearth of small particles in the transiting material around the white dwarf WD 1145+017
    White dwarf WD 1145+017 is orbited by several clouds of dust, possibly emanating from actively disintegrating bodies. These dust clouds reveal themselves...
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    A Short-duration Event as the Cause of Dust Ejection from Main-Belt Comet P/2012 F5 (Gibbs)
    We present observations and an interpretative model of the dust environment of the Main-Belt Comet P/2010 F5 (Gibbs). The narrow dust trails observed can be...