... Union (IAU), which has named four asteroids, or minor planets, after them in ... The IAU has recently named four asteroids after current and former Observatory staff ... stars and to small bodies, such as comets and asteroids, in the solar system ...
... the relation between geometric albedo and polarimetric properties for the asteroids ... obtained for four large main belt asteroids belonging to different taxonomic classes ...
... Abstract . Context. Trojan asteroids orbit in the Lagrange points of the system Sun-planet-asteroid. ... In general, the polarimetric properties of Trojan asteroids are similar to those of D- and P-type main-belt asteroids. ...
... A population of main belt asteroids co-orbiting with Ceres and Vesta . ... Evolution of main belt asteroid 157214 during episodes of tadpole (bold line) and ... as are the triangular equilibrium points L4 and L5 of the Sun-Ceres-Asteroid system ...
... comets and asteroids, and whether a significant fraction of asteroids are merely ... near-Earth asteroids, the origin (and number) of Earth-crossing asteroids, and the ...
... My ramblings on impacting asteroid 2008 TC3 . Meteors and Meteor Showers . ... near-Earth objects (NEOs - comets or asteroids on orbits that can come near the ... The EURONEAR project (European Near Earth Asteroids Research) . ...
... Faulkes Telescope Observations . Asteroids and Comets. ... near earth objects (NEOs) such as asteroids and comets by controlling the Faulkes ... of the objects we observed included asteroids, comets , a virtual impactor and an ...
... A close Up of the asteroid as it flies by at 1 kilometre per second. ... Earth from the Asteroids point of view - 3000 km up . ... A view from about 25 km behind the asteroid showing the terminator of the earth . ...
... object (NEO) families than main belt asteroid families, since differential orbital evolution within a NEO family can cause current orbital elements to drastically differ from each other, we have found that Apollo asteroids 1566 Icarus and the newly ...