The interstellar interlopers

D Jewitt, DZ Seligman - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Interstellar interlopers are bodies formed outside of the Solar System but observed passing
through it. The first two identified interlopers, 1I/'Oumuamua and 2I/Borisov, exhibited …

The global shape, density and rotation of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from preperihelion Rosetta/OSIRIS observations

L Jorda, R Gaskell, C Capanna, S Hviid, P Lamy… - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract The Rosetta spacecraft reached Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (hereafter
67P/CG) in August 2014 at an heliocentric distance of 3.6 au and was then put in orbit …

The significance of meteorite density and porosity

GJ Consolmagno, DT Britt, RJ Macke - Geochemistry, 2008 - Elsevier
Non-destructive, non-contaminating, and relatively simple procedures can be used to
measure the bulk density, grain density, and porosity of meteorites. Most stony meteorites …

A Pluto-like radius and a high albedo for the dwarf planet Eris from an occultation

B Sicardy, JL Ortiz, M Assafin, E Jehin, A Maury… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The dwarf planet Eris is a trans-Neptunian object with an orbital eccentricity of 0.44, an
inclination of 44 degrees and a surface composition very similar to that of Pluto. It resides at …

The natural history of 'Oumuamua

Nature Astronomy, 2019 - nature.com
The discovery of the first interstellar object passing through the Solar System, 1I/2017 U1
('Oumuamua), provoked intense and continuing interest from the scientific community and …

The natural history of'Oumuamua

M Bannister, A Bhandare, P Dybczynski… - Nature …, 2019 - pure.qub.ac.uk
The discovery of the first interstellar object passing through the Solar System, 1I/2017 U1
('Oumuamua), provoked intense and continuing interest from the scientific community and …

Orbits and masses of the satellites of the dwarf planet Haumea (2003 EL61)

D Ragozzine, ME Brown - The Astronomical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
Using precise relative astrometry from the Hubble Space Telescope and the WM Keck
Telescope, we have determined the orbits and masses of the two dynamically interacting …

[HTML][HTML] “TNOs are Cool”: A survey of the trans-Neptunian region-IX. Thermal properties of Kuiper belt objects and Centaurs from combined Herschel and Spitzer …

E Lellouch, P Santos-Sanz, P Lacerda… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
Aims. The goal of this work is to characterize the ensemble thermal properties of the
Centaurs/trans-Neptunian population. Methods. Thermal flux measurements obtained with …

Near-infrared spectroscopy of Trojan asteroids: Evidence for two compositional groups

JP Emery, DM Burr, DP Cruikshank - The Astronomical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The Trojan asteroids, a very substantial population of primitive bodies trapped in Jupiter's
stable Lagrange regions, remain quite poorly understood. Because they occupy these orbits …

Full numerical simulations of catastrophic small body collisions

ZM Leinhardt, ST Stewart - Icarus, 2009 - Elsevier
The outcome of collisions between small icy bodies, such as Kuiper belt objects, is poorly
understood and yet a critical component of the evolution of the trans-neptunian region. The …