DELBO , M.

Aims. The near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu were visited, characterised, and sampled by the Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx missions, where remote sensing data and sample return analysis showed that both asteroids have primitive, hydrated, and organic-rich compositions. The dark families of the inner main belt that belong to the spectroscopic...

Lunar impact flash (LIF) observations typically occur in R, I, or unfiltered light, and are only possible during night, targeting the night side of a 10-60% illumination Moon, while >10°above the observers horizon. This severely limits the potential to observe, and therefore the number of lower occurrence, high energy impacts observed is...

Context: Observation of star occultations is a powerful tool to determine shapes and sizes of asteroids. This is key information necessary for studying the evolution of the asteroid belt and to calibrate indirect methods of size determination, such as the models used to analyze thermal infrared observations. Up to now, the observation of...

Context. Andesitic meteorites are among the oldest achondrites known to date. They record volcanic events and crust formation episodes in primordial planetesimals that took place about 4.565 Myr ago. However, no analogue for these meteorites has been found in the asteroid population to date. Aims: We searched for spectroscopic analogues of the...

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Astrophysical Journal, 694, Issue 2, pp. 1228-1236 (2009)