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We present results of a polarimetric survey of main-belt asteroids at Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito (CASLEO), San Juan, Argentina. The aims of this survey are to increase the...

Hilda asteroids and Jupiter Trojans are two low-albedo (p_v_~0.07) populations for which the Nice model predicts an origin in the primordial Kuiper Belt region. However, recent...

The dynamical evolution of near-parabolic comets strongly depends on the starting values of the orbital elements derived from the positional observations. In addition, when...

Using over 89 million astrometric observations of 349,737 numbered minor planets, an attempt was made to determine the masses of 230 of them by simultaneously solving for...

Near-Earth asteroid (25143) Itokawa was visited by the Hayabusa spacecraft in 2005, resulting in a highly detailed shape and surface topography model. This model has led to...

We derive the thermal inertia of 2008 EV5, the baseline target for the Marco Polo-R mission proposal, and infer information about the size of the particles on its surface....

The prediction tables of stellar occultations by 5 Centaurs and 34 TNOs (referred simply as TNOs hereafter) for the period 2012.5-2014 were built to support the investigation of...

The object 2012 DA14 is a near-Earth asteroid with a size of several tens of meters. It had approached closely the Earth on 15 February 2013 UT, providing an opportunity for...

We compute for a set of 100 asteroids their rotational parameters: the moments of inertia along the principal axes of the object, the obliquity of the axis of rotation with...

Because of Pluto's distance from the Sun, the Pluto system has not yet completed a revolution since its discovery, hence an uncertain heliocentric distance. In this paper, we...

It is known that the Yarkovsky effect moves small asteroids to larger/smaller semimajor axes depending on their prograde/retrograde spins. The YORP effect influences asteroid...

Near-Earth asteroid (hereafter NEA) 162173 (1999 JU3) is a potential target of two asteroid sample return missions not only because of its accessibility but also because of the...

Ever since the very first photometric studies of Centaurs and Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) their visible color distribution has been controversial. This controversy has triggered...

Recent studies have uncovered evidence that the statistical properties of asteroids' physical parameters are a fundamental source of information on the physics of their...

Photometric colours of Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System (MBOSS). This compilation is based on over 2000 measurement epoch extracted from over 100 articles, and is fairly...

The shapes and spin states of asteroids observed with photometric techniques can be reconstructed using the lightcurve inversion method. The resultant models can then be...

We present results of a polarimetric survey of main-belt asteroids at Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito (Casleo), San Juan, Argentina. The aims of this survey are to increase the...

The prediction tables of stellar occultations by Eris, Haumea, Makemake, Quaoar, Orcus, Sedna, Varuna, Ixion, 2002TX300 and 2003AZ84 for 2008-2015 were built to support the...

We present results of a polarimetric survey of main-belt asteroids at Complejo Astronomico el Leoncito (CASLEO), San Juan, Argentina. The aims of this survey are to increase the...

We present the first results of a polarimetric survey of main-belt asteroids at Complejo Astronomico El Leoncito (Casleo), San Juan, Argentina. The aims of this survey are to...