Arecibo radar observations of near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon during the 2017 apparition

PA Taylor, EG Rivera-Valentín, LAM Benner… - Planetary and Space …, 2019 - Elsevier
We report Arecibo S-band (2380 MHz; 12.6 cm) radar observations of near-Earth asteroid
(3200) Phaethon during the December 2017 apparition when Phaethon passed within 0.07 …

Evidence of surface heterogeneity on active asteroid (3200) Phaethon

E MacLennan, S Marshall, M Granvik - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermal infrared emission and thermophysical modeling techniques are powerful tools in
deciphering the surface properties of asteroids. The near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon is …

[HTML][HTML] Physical modeling of triple near-Earth Asteroid (153591) 2001 SN263 from radar and optical light curve observations

TM Becker, ES Howell, MC Nolan, C Magri, P Pravec… - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
We report radar observations (2380-MHz, 13-cm) by the Arecibo Observatory and optical
light curves observed from eight different observatories and collected at the Ondřejov …

Thermal decomposition as the activity driver of near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon

E MacLennan, M Granvik - Nature Astronomy, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon exhibits activity during its perihelion passage
at 0.14 au from the Sun and is the likely parent body of the annual Geminid meteor shower …

Asteroid triple-system 2001 SN263: surface characteristics and dynamical environment

OC Winter, G Valvano, TS Moura… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The (153591) 2001 SN263 asteroid system, a target of the first Brazilian
interplanetary space mission, is one of the known three triple systems within the population …

2001 SN263 – the contribution of their irregular shapes on the neighbourhood dynamics

G Valvano, OC Winter, R Sfair… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The first proposed Brazilian mission to deep space, the ASTER mission, has the triple
asteroid system (153591) 2001 SN263 as a target. One of the mission's main goals is to …

Radar and Optical Observations and Physical Modeling of Binary Near-Earth Asteroid 2018 EB

M Brozović, LAM Benner, SP Naidu… - The Planetary …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We report radar, photometric, and visible-wavelength spectrophotometry observations of
NEA 2018 EB obtained in 2018. The radar campaign started at Goldstone (8560 MHz, 3.5 …

Physical properties of near-Earth asteroids with a low delta-v: Survey of target candidates for the Hayabusa2 mission

S Hasegawa, D Kuroda, K Kitazato… - Publications of the …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Sample return from the near-Earth asteroid known as 25143 Itokawa was conducted as part
of the Hayabusa mission, with a large number of scientific findings being derived from the …

Definition of multispectral camera system parameters to model the asteroid 2001 SN263

GCA Goulart, T Statella, R Sfair - New Astronomy, 2024 - Elsevier
In 2012, Brazil began the studies to send its first deep space exploration mission, ASTER,
which would be the first mission to orbit a triple asteroid system, 2001 SN263. We aim to …

Spectral properties of binary asteroids

M Pajuelo, M Birlan, B Carry, FE DeMeo… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We present the first attempt to characterize the distribution of taxonomic class among the
population of binary asteroids (15 per cent of all small asteroids). For that, an analysis of 0.8 …