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 The ESA Hera Mission: Investigating binary asteroid (65803) Didymos and the DART crater 

174P/Echeclus and its blue coma observed post-outburst

scientific article published in January 2019

280 one-opposition near-Earth asteroids recovered by the EURONEAR with the Isaac Newton Telescope

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

2I/Borisov: A C 2 -depleted interstellar comet

scientific article published in November 2019

2P/Encke, the Taurid complex NEOs and the Maribo and Sutter’s Mill meteorites ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A Dwarf Planet Class Object in the 21:5 Resonance with Neptune ⬇️

A collision in 2009 as the origin of the debris trail of asteroid P/2010 A2

scientific article

A comparison of oxygen and nitrogen abundances in young clusters and associations and in the interstellar gas

scientific article published in January 1992

A fast hybrid algorithm for exoplanetary transit searches

scientific article

A fluorescence model of the C_3_ radical in comets

scholarly article

A laboratory study of water ice erosion by low-energy ions ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2016

A photometric and spectroscopic survey for young stars in the halo of M31 ⬇️

scientific article

A search for young stars in the halo of M 31 ⬇️

scientific article

A study of Hilda asteroids. II. Compositional implications from optical spectroscopy

scientific article

Absolute magnitudes and slope parameters for 250,000 asteroids observed by Pan-STARRS PS1 – Preliminary results ⬇️

article

An observational upper limit on the interstellar number density of asteroids and comets ⬇️

scholarly article

Brightness variation distributions among main belt asteroids from sparse light-curve sampling with Pan-STARRS 1 ⬇️

article by A. McNeill et al published 13 April 2016 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

CCD Stromgren uvby photometry of the young clusters NGC 1893, NGC 457, Berkeley 94 and Bochum 1

scientific article published in January 1993

CCD astrometry of Saturn's satellites in 1995 and 1997

scientific article

CCD photometry of comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle

scientific article

CCD photometry of distant comets

scientific article

CCD photometry of distant comets. II

scientific article

CCD photometry of distant comets. III. Ensemble properties of Jupiter-family comets

scientific article published in January 2003

Col-OSSOS: Colors of the Interstellar Planetesimal 1I/‘Oumuamua ⬇️

scientific article

Comet 17P/Holmes

scholarly article by Fitzsimmons et al

Comet 17P/Holmes

scholarly article by Hsieh et al

Comet 17P/Holmes

scholarly article by Snodgrass et al

Comet 17P/Holmes

scholarly article by Fitzsimmons and Sekanina

Comet 322P/SOHO 1: An asteroid with the smallest perihelion distance? ⬇️

scientific article

Comet C/2005 E1 (Tubbiolo)

scientific article published in January 2005

Comet C/2005 EL_173 (LONEOS)

scientific article published in January 2005

Comet C/2005 H1 (LINEAR)

scientific article published in January 2005

Comet C/2005 O1 (NEAT)

scientific article

Comet C/2006 HW_51 (Siding Spring)

scientific article published in January 2006

Comet C/2006 P1 (mcnaught)

scholarly article

Comet C/2006 P1 (mcnaught)

scientific article

Comet P/2002 EX_12 (NEAT)

scientific article published in January 2005

Comet P/2003 KV_2 (LINEAR)

scientific article

Comet P/2003 SQ_215 (NEAT-LONEOS)

scientific article published in January 2004

Comet P/2005 JQ_5 (Catalina)

scientific article

Comet P/2006 HR_30 (Siding Spring)

scholarly article

Comet P/2006 VW_139 = (300163) 2006 VW_139

scientific article published in January 2011

Cometary science after Rosetta

scientific article

Cometary science with CUBES

DIVISION F COMMISSION 15: PHYSICAL STUDY OF COMETS AND MINOR PLANETS

scientific article

DIVISION III: COMMISSION 15: PHYSICAL STUDIES OF COMETS AND MINOR PLANETS

Deep Impact: observations from a worldwide Earth-based campaign.

scientific article published on 08 September 2005

Detection of CN Gas in Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Differential CCD Photometry of Dubiago, Chiron and Hektor

scientific article

Direct Detection of the Asteroidal YORP Effect ⬇️

conference paper published in 2007

Direct detection of the asteroidal YORP effect

scientific article

Discovery of a pre-cataclysmic binary with unusual chromaticity of the eclipsed white dwarf by the GPX survey

scientific article

Discovery of main-belt comet P/2006 VW_139_ by Pan-STARRS1 ⬇️

article

Distant activity of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014: Ground-based results during the Rosetta pre-landing phase ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Do galactic abundance gradients exist ?

scientific article published in January 1990

Dolidze 25: a metal-deficient galactic open cluster

scholarly article

Ejecta Evolution Following a Planned Impact into an Asteroid: The First Five Weeks

scientific article published in December 2023

Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos

scientific article published in April 2023

Ejecta from the DART-produced active asteroid Dimorphos

scientific article published on 22 November 2022

Episodic dust formation by HD 192641 (WR 137) - II

scientific article

Erratum: The Super WASP wide-field exoplanetary transit survey: candidates from fields 23 h < RA < 03 h

scholarly article published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Exploration of the Kuiper belt by high-precision photometric stellar occultations: first results

Extreme asteroids in the Pan-STARRS 1 survey

scientific article published in January 2018

Failure to diagnose osteoporosis

scientific article published on 01 May 1995

Galactic B-supergiants. I. An atlas of O9-B9 supergiant spectra from 3950 A to 4950 A

scholarly article

Galactic B-supergiants. II. Line strengths in the visible. Evidence for evolutionary effects?

scientific article published in January 1993

Galactic abundance gradients from B-type stars in young clusters and associations

scientific article

Ground-based monitoring of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko gas activity throughout the Rosetta mission

scientific article

Hunting the lowest mass brown dwarfs

scientific article published in January 2000

Indirect alloresponses are more pronounced in non-rejecting lung than heart allografts

scientific article published on 01 February 2001

Infrared observations of high galactic latitude early-type stars

scientific article

Interstellar Objects and Exocomets

Interstellar comet 2I/Borisov as seen by MUSE: C$_2$, NH$_2$ and red CN detections

LOTUS: a low-cost, ultraviolet spectrograph ⬇️

scientific article

Light curves of the trans-Neptunian objects 1996 TP66 and 1994 VK8

scientific article published in January 1999

Looking towards the detection of exoearths with SuperWASP

Lucy Observations of the DART Impact Event

scientific article published in February 2024

Main-belt comet P/2012 T1 (PANSTARRS) ⬇️

article

MarcoPolo-R near earth asteroid sample return mission

Monitoring of the optical spectrum of comet 2I/Borisov at the VLT

scientific article published on 8 October 2020

NEO Population, Velocity Bias, and Impact Risk from an ATLAS Analysis

scholarly article

Near-UV and optical spectroscopy of comets using the ISIS spectrograph on the WHT

scientific article

Neutral Sodium from Comet Hale-Bopp: A Third Type of Tail ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

New exoplanets from the SuperWASP-North survey

New transiting exoplanets from the SuperWASP-North survey

Observational and dynamical characterization of main-belt comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra)

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Observational constraints on the catastrophic disruption rate of small main belt asteroids ⬇️

scholarly article

Observations of a possible companion to the high-latitude B-type star PG 0832+676

scientific article published in January 1994

Observations of the Trans-Neptunian Objects 1993 SC and 1996 TL₆₆ with the Infrared Space Observatory ⬇️

scientific article published in May 2000

On the alignment of debris discs and their host stars’ rotation axis - implications for spin-orbit misalignment in exoplanetary systems

Optical colors of 56 near-Earth objects: trends with size and orbit

Optical observations of 23 distant Jupiter Family Comets, including 36P/Whipple at multiple phase angles

scientific article

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

scholarly article

Photometry of cometary nuclei: rotation rates, colours and a comparison with Kuiper Belt Objects*

scientific article

Physical Characterization of Main-belt Comet (248370) 2005 QN 173

scientific article published in November 2021

Physical and dynamical characterisation of low {Delta}V NEA (190491) 2000 FJ_10_

scientific article published in January 2012

Planetary science. Ice among the rocks

scientific article published in April 2006

Potential Flyby Targets for the ESA Hera Mission

Properties of the Bare Nucleus of Comet 96P/Machholz 1

Re-entry and ablation of cometary dust in the impact plumes of Shoemaker–Levy 9

scientific article published in Nature

Rotation of cometary nuclei: new light curves and an update of the ensemble properties of Jupiter-family comets

scientific article

Search for dust emission from (24) Themis using the Gemini-North Observatory

scholarly article

Search for the return of activity in active asteroid 176P/LINEAR ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Serendipitous Asteroid Lightcurve Survey Using SuperWASP

Shape model and spin-state analysis of PHA contact binary (85990) 1999 JV6 from combined radar and optical observations

scientific article

Size, albedo, and taxonomic type of potential spacecraft target Asteroid (10302) 1989 ML

scientific article

Sodium D2 line profiles: clues to the temperature structure of Mercury’s exosphere

journal article

Spectroscopy and thermal modelling of the first interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua

academic journal article

Spin rate of asteroid (54509) 2000 PH5 increasing due to the YORP effect

scientific article

Spitzer observations of the asteroid-comet transition object and potential spacecraft target 107P (4015) Wilson-Harrington

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Status of SuperWASP I (La Palma)

scientific article

Sublimation-driven activity in main-belt comet 313p/Gibbs ⬇️

scholarly article

SuperWASP observations of the 2007 outburst of Comet 17P/Holmes

scientific article

SuperWASP-N extrasolar planet candidates between 18 < RA < 21 h

scientific article

SuperWASP-N extrasolar planet candidates from fields 06h< RA < 16h

scholarly article

SuperWASP-North extrasolar planet candidates between 3h < RA < 6h

scientific article

SuperWASP-North extrasolar planet candidates: candidates from fields 17 h < RA < 18 h

scholarly article

SuperWASP: Wide Angle Search for Planets

scientific article published in January 2003

Surface Properties of Near-Sun Asteroids

scientific article published in 2022

Surface properties of Rosetta's targets (21) Lutetia and (2867) Steins from ESO observations

scholarly article

The 2003 November 14 occultation by Titan of TYC 1343-1865-1: II. Analysis of light curves

scientific article

The 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko observation campaign in support of the Rosetta mission.

scientific article published on July 2017

The CUBES Science Case

scholarly article published in August 2022

The Castalia mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro

The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos

scientific article published in 2022

The ESA Hera mission to the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos: Planetary Defense and Science

scholarly article

The ESA Hera mission to the binary asteroid (65803) Didymos:Planetary Defense and Science

The European Union funded NEOShield project: A global approach to near-Earth object impact threat mitigation

The Increasing Spin Rate of Asteroid (54509) 2000 PH5: A Result of the YORP Effect ⬇️

conference paper published in 2007

The Main Belt Comets and ice in the Solar System

The Pan-STARRS Moving Object Processing System

article

The Science of Sungrazers, Sunskirters, and Other Near-Sun Comets

The SuperWASP wide-field exoplanetary transit survey: candidates from fields 23 h < RA < 03 h

scientific article

The WASP Project and SuperWASP Camera

The WASP Project and the SuperWASP Cameras

scientific article

The WASP project in the era of robotic telescope networks

The chemical composition at a galactocentric distance of 13 kpc

scientific article

The chemical composition of a main sequence star in the Small Magellanic Cloud ⬇️

scientific article published in January 1990

The chemical composition of the northern double cluster h and khi Persei and the loose association Cepheus OB III

scientific article published in January 1990

The chemical compositions of four B-type stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud

scientific article published in January 1993

The chemical compositions of the distant galactic open clusters Bochum 1 and NGC 1893

scientific article published in January 1993

The chemical compositions of the open clusters Be 94 and NGC 457

scientific article

The comet cometh

scientific article published in Nature

The dust environment of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko from Rosetta OSIRIS and VLT observations in the 4.5 to 2.9 AU heliocentric distance range inbound ⬇️

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The impact and recovery of asteroid 2008 TC(3)

scientific article (publication date: 26 March 2009)

The internal structure of asteroid (25143) Itokawa as revealed by detection of YORP spin-up

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The main-belt comets: The Pan-STARRS1 perspective ⬇️

The nuclei of comets 7P/Pons-Winnecke, 14P/Wolf and 92P/Sanguin

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The nucleus of comet P/Levy 1991 XI

scientific article published in January 1994

The perihelion activity of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko as seen by robotic telescopes ⬇️

article

The persistent activity of Jupiter-family comets at 3–7AU

article

The proposed Caroline ESA M3 mission to a Main Belt Comet

The scattered trans-Neptunian object 1998 XY95

scholarly article

The similarity of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov to Solar System comets from high-resolution optical spectroscopy

scientific article published in June 2021

The size distribution of Jupiter Family comet nuclei

scholarly article

The sporadic activity of (6478) Gault: a YORP-driven event? ⬇️

scholarly article

The tumbling rotational state of 1I/‘Oumuamua

Thermal properties, sizes, and size distribution of Jupiter-family cometary nuclei

Tidally distorted exoplanets: density corrections for short-period hot-jupiters based solely on observable parameters ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

UBV CCD photometry towards the halo of M31

Validation study of immunoaffinity column chromatography coupled with solution fluorometry or HPLC for the detection of aflatoxin in peanuts and corn.

scientific article published in March 2011

WASP-1b and WASP-2b: two new transiting exoplanets detected with SuperWASP and SOPHIE

scientific article (publication date: March 2007)

WASP-3b: a strongly irradiated transiting gas-giant planet

scientific article

William Herschel Telescope observations of distant comets

scientific article published in January 2005

X-shooter search for outgassing from main belt comet P/2012 T1 (Pan-STARRS)

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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