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    The carbon monoxide-rich interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

    Interstellar comets offer direct samples of volatiles from distant protoplanetary disks. 2I/Borisov is the first notably active interstellar comet discovered in our Solar System1. Comets are condensed samples of ...

    D. Bodewits, J. W. Noonan, P. D. Feldman, M. T. Bannister… in Nature Astronomy (2020)

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    The dynamic geophysical environment of (101955) Bennu based on OSIRIS-REx measurements

    The top-shaped morphology characteristic of asteroid (101955) Bennu, often found among fast-spinning asteroids and binary asteroid primaries, may have contributed substantially to binary asteroid formation. Ye...

    D. J. Scheeres, J. W. McMahon, A. S. French, D. N. Brack, S. R. Chesley… in Nature Astronomy (2019)

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    The OSIRIS-REx Radio Science Experiment at Bennu

    The OSIRIS-REx mission will conduct a Radio Science investigation of the asteroid Bennu with a primary goal of estimating the mass and gravity field of the asteroid. The spacecraft will conduct proximity opera...

    J. W. McMahon, D. J. Scheeres, S. G. Hesar, D. Farnocchia… in Space Science Reviews (2018)

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    High precision predictions for near-Earth asteroids: the strange case of (3908) Nyx

    In November 2004 radar delay measurements of near-Earth asteroid (3908) Nyx obtained at the Arecibo radio telescope turned out to be $...

    D. Farnocchia, S. R. Chesley, D. J. Tholen… in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (2014)

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    Orbit determination with the two-body integrals. II

    The first integrals of the Kepler problem are used to compute preliminary orbits starting from two short observed arcs of a celestial body, which may be obtained either by optical or by radar observations. We ...

    G. F. Gronchi, D. Farnocchia, L. Dimare in Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy (2011)