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List of works by Stefano Mottola

A new chronology for the Moon and Mercury

scientific article published on 4 May 2009

An orbital water-ice cycle on comet 67P from colour changes

scientific article published on 05 February 2020

Asteroid Ryugu before the Hayabusa2 encounter

scientific article published in December 2018

Aswan site on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Morphology, boulder evolution, and spectrophotometry

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

COMETARY SCIENCE. The landing(s) of Philae and inferences about comet surface mechanical properties.

scientific article published on July 2015

Color and albedo heterogeneity of Vesta from Dawn

scientific article

Cometary science. Dust measurements in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko inbound to the Sun.

scientific article published on January 2015

Cometary science. The morphological diversity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

scientific article published on January 2015

Convex Shape and Rotation Model of Lucy Target (11351) Leucus from Lightcurves and Occultations

scholarly article

Correction to “Mercury's geochronology revised by applying Model Production Function to Mariner 10 data: Geological implications”

scientific article published in October 2010

Eclipsing binary Trojan asteroid Patroclus: Thermal inertia from Spitzer observations

scholarly article

Fission and reconfiguration of bilobate comets as revealed by 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

scientific article

Global photometric properties of Asteroid (4) Vesta observed with Dawn Framing Camera

scientific article published in November 2013

Global-scale brittle plastic rheology at the cometesimals merging of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

scientific article published on 27 April 2020

How pristine is the interior of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko?

scholarly article

Images from the surface of asteroid Ryugu show rocks similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Large heterogeneities in comet 67P as revealed by active pits from sinkhole collapse

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Light Curves of Lucy Targets: Leucus and Polymele

scholarly article

Lucy Mission to the Trojan Asteroids: Science Goals

scholarly article

Mercury's geochronology revised by applying Model Production Function to Mariner 10 data: Geological implications

scientific article published on 7 November 2009

Models of Rosetta/OSIRIS 67P dust coma phase function

scholarly article

OSIRIS observations of meter-sized exposures of H2O ice at the surface of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and interpretation using laboratory experiments

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

On the nucleus structure and activity of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

scientific article published in Science

Optical observations of NEA 162173 (1999 JU3) during the 2011-2012 apparition

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Outgassing behavior of C/2012 S1 (ISON) from 2011September to 2013 June

scholarly article

Photometric lightcurve and rotation period of Himalia (Jupiter VI)

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Planetary exploration with optical imaging systems review: what is the best sensor for future missions

scholarly article

Recent GRBs Observed with the 1.23 m CAHA Telescope and the Status of Its Upgrade

scholarly article

Reflectivity of Venus’s Dayside Disk During the 2020 Observation Campaign: Outcomes and Future Perspectives

scientific article published in 2022

Rosetta Lander - Philae: Operations on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, analysis of wake-up activities and final state

scholarly article

Rotational properties of Jupiter trojans. I. Light curves of 80 objects

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Size-frequency distribution of boulders ≥7 m on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Spectral study of the Eunomia asteroid family

scholarly article

Spectrophotometric Analysis of the Ryugu Rock Seen by MASCOT: Searching for a Carbonaceous Chondrite Analog

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Studies of irregular satellites: I. Lightcurves and rotation periods of 25 Saturnian moons from Cassini observations

scientific article published in April 2019

Surface changes on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko suggest a more active past.

scientific article

The Lightcurve and Colors of Unusual Minor Planet 1996 PW

scholarly article

The Mars NetLander panoramic camera

scholarly article

The Philae lander mission and science overview.

scientific article published in July 2017

The slow rotation of 253 Mathilde

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The southern hemisphere of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko: Analysis of the preperihelion size-frequency distribution of boulders ≥7 m

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Thermal inertia of near-Earth asteroids and implications for the magnitude of the Yarkovsky effect

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Two independent and primitive envelopes of the bilobate nucleus of comet 67P.

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Vesta’s missing moons: Comprehensive search for natural satellites of Vesta by the Dawn spacecraft

scholarly article