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Large sky surveys provide numerous non-targeted observations of small bodies of the Solar System. The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) of the Vera C. Rubin...

The understanding of the dynamical evolution of asteroids through the secular Yarkovsky effect requires the determination of many physical properties, including the rotation...

The discovery rate of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) has steadily increased over the past three decades, yet the physical characterization of these objects has not kept pace. In an...

Meteoroid streams can be complex structures shaped by the processes of their formation and subsequent orbital evolution. The first step of their understanding is mapping their...

We present 81 photometric lightcurve of 36 minor planets observed in the V and B bands at the ESO 50cm telescope at La Silla (Chile). These asteroids were selected...

Observational circumstances of 36 members of the Themis family observed at the 1.52m telescope of ESO (La Silla) under the agreement with the CNPq-Observatorio Nacional...

Predictions, based on a computerized comparison of asteroid ephemerides with the catalog positions of 567,500 stars, are given for 155 occultations of stars by asteroids in 1995...

The orbits of 4583 main belt asteroids are integrated orbits for 57 years and searched for asteroid-asteroid encounters from which it may be possible to determine the masses of...

The Flagstaff Astrometric Scanning Transit Telescope was used to scan the sky in search of occultation candidates through which the Centaur 10199 Chariklo (formerly 1997 CU_26_)...

A total of six deep exposures (using the astronomical observation template CAM01 with a 6" pixel field of view) through the ISOCAM LW10 filter (IRAS band 1, i.e., 12{mu}m) were...

Extensive time-resolved observations of Kuiper belt object 2001 QG298 show a light curve with a peak-to-peak variation of 1.14+/-0.04mag and single-peaked period of...

I report new time-resolved light curves and determine the rotations and phase functions of several large Kuiper Belt objects, which includes the dwarf planet Eris (2003 UB313)....

We present here an extensive survey of near-infrared (NIR) spectra of Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) and Centaurs taken with the Keck I Telescope. We find that most spectra in our...

We present a new analysis of 843 photographic plates of Pluto taken by Carl Lampland at Lowell Observatory from 1930-1951. This large collection of plates contains useful...

We present numerically derived orbits and mass estimates for the inner Saturnian satellites, Atlas, Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, and Epimetheus from a fit to 2580 new Cassini...

We fit 54296 sparsely sampled asteroid light curves in the Palomar Transient Factory survey to a combined rotation plus phase-function model. Each light curve consists of 20 or...

Hi'iaka is the larger outer satellite of the dwarf planet Haumea. Using relative photometry from the Hubble Space Telescope and Magellan and a phase dispersion minimization...

We are performing a wide and deep survey for extreme distant solar system objects. Our goal is to understand the high-perihelion objects Sedna and 2012 VP113 and determine if an...

CM chondrites are the most common type of hydrated meteorites, making up ~1.5% of all falls. Whereas most CM chondrites experienced only low-temperature (~0{deg}C-120{deg}C)...

The Near-Earth Object Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission continues to detect, track, and characterize minor planets. We present diameters and albedos...