Abstract The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to start the Legacy Survey of Space and
Time (LSST) in early to mid-2025. This multiband wide-field synoptic survey will transform …

Amateur contributions to professional publications have increased exponentially over the
last decades in the field of planetary astronomy. Here we review the different domains of the …

The field of asteroid thermophysical modeling has experienced an extraordinary growth in
the last 10 years, as new thermal-infrared data became available for hundreds of thousands …

Abstract Asteroid (101955) Bennu, the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample return mission,
is a D≈ 0.5 km diameter low albedo near-Earth object. It has a spectral signature consistent …

In the past decade, the number of known binary near-Earth asteroids has more than
quadrupled and the number of known large main-belt asteroids with satellites has doubled …

Aims. We locate escape routes from the main asteroid belt, particularly into the near-Earth-
object (NEO) region, and estimate the relative fluxes for different escape routes as a function …

Basaltic V-type asteroids are common in the inner part of the Main Asteroid Belt and much
less abundant in the mid and outer parts. They are of scientific interest because they sample …

Context. The near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon is an intriguing object: its perihelion is at
only 0.14 au and is associated with the Geminid meteor stream. Aims. We aim to use all …

Context. Disk-integrated photometric data of asteroids do not contain accurate information
on shape details or size scale. Additional data such as disk-resolved images or stellar …

Context. Asteroid modeling efforts in the last decade resulted in a comprehensive dataset of
almost 400 convex shape models and their rotation states. These efforts already provided …