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(523599) 2003 RM: The Asteroid that Wanted to be a Comet

scholarly article

2060 Chiron: Colorimetry and cometary behavior

article

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

scientific article published in November 2019

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

A Pencil-Beam Search for Distant TNOs at the ESO NTT

A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid

academic journal article

A mechanism for short-lived cometary outbursts at sunrise as observed by Deep Impact on 9P/Tempel 1

scientific article published in January 2008

A search for the origin of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Activity of Comet 103P/Hartley 2 at the time of the EPOXI mission fly-by

article by Gian Paolo Tozzi et al published February 2013 in Icarus

Assessing Potential Contributions from Outgassing and Tidal Effects on the Evolving Rotational State of 1I/'Oumuamua

Astronomy science fair projects

scholarly article published 2004

Author Correction: Compact pebbles and the evolution of volatiles in the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

scientific article published on 19 April 2021

BVRI Photometry of 27 Kuiper Belt Objects with ESO/Very Large Telescope

scientific article published in January 2001

Beginning of Activity in Long-period Comet C/2015 ER61 (PANSTARRS)

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Beginning of activity in 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko and predictions for 2014–2015

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Bioastronomy 2007

scientific article published in June 2007

C/2013 R1 (Lovejoy) at IR wavelengths and the variability of CO abundances among Oort cloud comets ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2014

CO-driven Activity in Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) ⬇️

article

Carbon monoxide in comet 9P/Tempel 1 before and after the Deep Impact encounter ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2006

Catastrophic disruption of comet ISON ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Centaurs and scattered disk objects in the thermal infrared: analysis of WISE/NEOWISE observations ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Characterizing the Manx Candidate A/2018 V3

scholarly article

Charge exchange-induced X-ray emission from comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR).

scientific article

Comet 103P/Hartley

scientific article

Comet 103P/Hartley

Comet 9P/Tempel

Comet Bowell at record heliocentric distance

scientific article published in Nature

Comet Size Distributions and Distant Activity

Comet nucleus size distributions from HST and Keck telescopes

scholarly article

Cometary volatiles and the origin of comets ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Compact pebbles and the evolution of volatiles in the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

scientific article published on 30 March 2021

Continued activity in P/2013 P5 PANSTARRS. Unexpected comet, rotational break-up, or rubbing binary asteroid?

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

DIVISION III: PLANETARY SYSTEMS SCIENCES

scientific article (publication date: December 2008)

Dark Comets? Unexpectedly Large Nongravitational Accelerations on a Sample of Small Asteroids

scientific article published in February 2023

Debiasing the NEOWISE Cryogenic Mission Comet Populations

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Deep Impact and sample return

scientific article published in January 2008

Deep Impact photometry of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

Deep Impact photometry of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

reprint of a scholarly article

Deep Impact, Stardust-NExT and the behavior of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 from 1997 to 2010

Deep Impact: Working Properties for the Target Nucleus – Comet 9P/Tempel 1

scholarly article

Deep Impact: Working Properties for the Target Nucleus — Comet 9P/Tempel 1

scholarly article

Deep Impact: excavating comet Tempel 1.

scientific article

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

scientific article published on 08 September 2005

Detailed characterization of low activity comet 49P/Arend–Rigaux

scientific article published in March 2020

Detailed phase function of comet 28P/Neujmin 1

scientific article published in January 2001

Detection of CN Gas in Interstellar Object 2I/Borisov

scientific article published on 25 October 2019

Detection of soft X-rays and a sensitive search for noble gases in comet Hale-Bopp

scientific article

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

article

Disintegration of active asteroid P/2016 G1 (PANSTARRS)

scientific article published in August 2019

Dust Evolution of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

EPOXI at comet Hartley 2

scientific article (publication date: 17 June 2011)

EPOXI: comet 103P/Hartley 2 observations from a worldwide campaign ⬇️

Early recovery of Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle

scientific article published in January 1998

Education and Public Outreach for Nasa’s Deep Impact Mission

Education and Public Outreach for Nasa’s Deep Impact Mission

En route to destruction: the evolution in composition of ices in comet D/2012 S1 (ISON) between 1.2 and 0.34 AU from the Sun as revealed at infrared wavelengths ⬇️

scientific article published in January 2016

Evidence for primordial water in Earth's deep mantle

scientific article published on November 2015

Exposed Water Ice Deposits on the Surface of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

scientific article published in Science

Fitting the Light Curve of 1I/`Oumuamua with a Nonprincipal Axis Rotational Model and Outgassing Torques

Fragmentation kinematics in comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami ⬇️

scientific article

HST and VLT Investigations of the Fragments of Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR)

scientific article published in Science

Hubble Space Telescope observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 during the Deep Impact encounter

scientific article

Hubble Space Telescope observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 during the Deep Impact encounter

article published in 2007

Hubble space telescope observations of comet p/shoemaker-levy 9 (1993e).

scientific article

Ice can survive an interstellar trip

scientific article published on 29 January 2018

In-Situ Exploration of Objects on Oort Cloud Comet Orbits: OCCs, Manxes and ISOs

scientific article

Inner solar system material discovered in the Oort cloud

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Isotopic ratios in outbursting comet C/2015 ER61

scientific article

JCMT Observations of the Deep Impact Event

Main-belt comet 238P/Read revisited ⬇️

scholarly article

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

article

Message from the Executive Council of the Astrobiology Society: The First Year

scientific article published in January 2011

Methane, ammonia, and their irradiation products at the surface of an intermediate-size KBO?

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

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

scientific article published on 8 October 2020

NEOWISE Observed CO and CO2 Production Rates of 46P/Wirtanen During the 2018–2019 Apparition

scholarly article

New near-aphelion light curves of Comet 2P/Encke

scholarly article

Non-gravitational acceleration in the trajectory of 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua)

scientific article published in Nature

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

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Observations of the Centaur 1999 UG5: Evidence of a Unique Outer Solar System Surface

article

On the Spin Dynamics of Elongated Minor Bodies with Applications to a Possible Solar System Analogue Composition for ‘Oumuamua

scientific article published in October 2021

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

scholarly article

P/2010 A2 LINEAR. I. An impact in the asteroid main belt

scientific article published in January 2012

P/2010 A2 LINEAR. II. Dynamical dust modelling

scientific article published in January 2013

Photoelectric sequences for EX Hydrae, V2051 Ophiuchi, and VV Puppis

scientific article published in January 1983

Photometric properties of the nucleus of Comet 103P/Hartley 2

scholarly article

Physical Aging in Comets

scientific article published in 1991

Physical Observations of 1996 TO66

Physical properties of TNO 1996 TO_66_. Lightcurves and possible cometary activity

scholarly article

Physical properties of cometary population

scientific article published in January 2004

Physical studies of KuiperBelt objects: an ESO VLT large program

Physical survey of 24 Centaurs with visible photometry

scientific article (publication date: November 2003)

Plausible Home Stars of the Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua Found in Gaia DR2

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Possible Activity in 468861 (2013 LU28)

scientific article published in February 2022

Post-Discovery Photometric Follow-up of Sungrazing Comet C/2012 S1 ISON ⬇️

paper about discovery of C/2012 S1 ISON

Post-perihelion observations of comet 1P/Halley. V: r_h_ = 28.1 AU

scholarly article

Pre-discovery Activity of New Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov beyond 5 au

scientific article

Procedures, Resources and Selected Results of the Deep Ecliptic Survey

Refined rotational period, pole solution, and shape model for (3200) Phaethon ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Report of the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements: 2015

Resonance Occupation in the Kuiper Belt: Case Examples of the 52 and Trojan Resonances

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Resonant and Secular Families of the Kuiper Belt

Results from the Eso Large Program on Transneptunian Objects and Centaurs

Return to Comet Tempel 1: Overview of Stardust-NExT results

Rotation of comet 46P/Wirtanen

scholarly article

Rotationally Resolved 8-35 MicronSpitzer Space TelescopeObservations of the Nucleus of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Searching for water ice in the coma of interstellar object 2I/Borisov

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Setting the scene: what did we know before Rosetta?

scientific article

Shape, density, and geology of the nucleus of Comet 103P/Hartley 2

scholarly article

Short GRB 130603B: discovery of a jet break in the optical and radio afterglows, and a mysterious late-time X-ray excess ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

Simultaneous visible-near IR photometric study of Kuiper Belt Object surfaces with the ESO/Very Large Telescopes

scientific article published in January 2004

Space weathering trends among carbonaceous asteroids ⬇️

scholarly article

Spitzer Observations of Interstellar Object 1I/‘Oumuamua

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

Spitzer Space TelescopeObservations of the Nucleus of Comet 103P/Hartley 2

Spitzer Spectral Observations of the Deep Impact Ejecta

scientific article published in Science

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

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Stardust-NExT, Deep Impact, and the accelerating spin of 9P/Tempel 1

scientific article

Subaru telescope observations of Deep Impact

scientific article

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

scholarly article

Surface temperature of the nucleus of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

scientific article

Surface temperature of the nucleus of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

TNO Color Survey with the VLT: Pilot Observations with the Science Verification Camera

scholarly article

TNO or Comet? The Search for Activity and Characterization of Distant Object 418993 (2009 MS9)

scientific article published in January 2023

TOPS telescope projects on variable stars and other objects

scientific article published in January 2002

Temporal and spatial aspects of gas release during the 2010 apparition of comet 103P/Hartley 2 ⬇️

article published in 2011

Testing Accuracy and Precision of Existing Photometry Algorithms on Moving Targets

scientific article published in April 2013

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

scientific article published on July 2017

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

The Coma of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

The Coma of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

The Deep Ecliptic Survey: A Search for Kuiper Belt Objects and Centaurs. II. Dynamical Classification, the Kuiper Belt Plane, and the Core Population

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The Deep Impact Earth-Based Campaign

The Deep Impact Earth-Based Campaign

The Excited Spin State of 1I/2017 U1 ‘Oumuamua ⬇️

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observing campaign on comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.

scientific article

The NEOWISE-discovered comet population and the CO + CO2 production rates ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

The atmosphere of 2060 Chiron

scientific article published in Astronomical Journal

The complex spin state of 103P/Hartley 2: Kinematics and orientation in space

scholarly article

The demise of Comet 85P/Boethin, the first EPOXI mission target

The detection, localization, and dynamics of large icy particles surrounding Comet 103P/Hartley 2

article

The excited spin state of Comet 2P/Encke

scholarly article

The formation heritage of Jupiter Family Comet 10P/Tempel 2 as revealed by infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published on 26 January 2012

The internal structure of Jupiter family cometary nuclei from Deep Impact observations: The “talps” or “layered pile” model

scholarly article

The internal structure of Jupiter family cometary nuclei from Deep Impact observations: The “talps” or “layered pile” model

scientific article

The mass spectrometer for planetary exploration (MASPEX)

scientific article

The nucleus of 103P/Hartley 2, target of theEPOXImission

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

The nucleus of Comet 9P/Tempel 1: Shape and geology from two flybys

scholarly article

The nucleus of Deep Impact target Comet 9P/Tempel 1

The nucleus of Deep Impact target Comet 9P/Tempel 1

scientific article

The orbit and size-frequency distribution of long period comets observed by Pan-STARRS1

scientific article

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 progressive fragmentation of 332P/Ikeya-Murakami ⬇️

scientific article

The shape, topography, and geology of Tempel 1 from Deep Impact observations

scholarly article

The shape, topography, and geology of Tempel 1 from Deep Impact observations

scientific 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 and thermal properties of the nucleus of Comet 22P/Kopff

scholarly article

The size, shape, density, and Albedo of Ceres from its occultation of BD+8°471

scientific article (publication date: December 1987)

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

scholarly article

The strange periodic comet machholz.

scientific article

The unexpectedly bright comet C/2012 F6 (Lemmon) unveiled at near-infrared wavelengths

scientific article published in January 2014

Thermal evolution and activity of comet 9P/Tempel 1 and simulation of a deep impact

scientific article

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

Transformative Planetary Science with the US ELT Program

Uranian ring orbits from earth-based and Voyager occultation observations

article

Visible and near-infrared spectrophotometry of the Deep Impact ejecta of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

scientific article

Visible and near-infrared spectrophotometry of the Deep Impact ejecta of Comet 9P/Tempel 1

article

WISE/NEOWISE observations of active bodies in the main belt ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

WISE/NEOWISE observations of comet 103P/Hartley 2 ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

WISE/NEOWISE preliminary analysis and highlights of the 67p/Churyumov-Gerasimenko near nucleus environs ⬇️

scientific article published in the Astrophysical Journal

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Working Group on Extrasolar Planets

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