Discovery of Main-Belt Comet P/2006 VW139 by Pan-STARRS1

Main belt asteroid (300163) 2006 VW139 (later designated P/2006 VW139) was discovered to exhibit comet-like activity by the Pan-STARRS1 survey telescope using automated point-spread-function analyses performed by PS1's Moving Object Processing System. Deep follow-up observations show both a sho...

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Veröffentlicht in:	arXiv.org 2012-02
Hauptverfasser:	Hsieh, Henry H, Yang, Bin, Haghighipour, Nader, Kaluna, Heather M, Fitzsimmons, Alan, Denneau, Larry, Novakovic, Bojan, Jedicke, Robert, Wainscoat, Richard J, Armstrong, James D, Duddy, Samuel R, Lowry, Stephen C, Trujillo, Chadwick A, Micheli, Marco, Keane, Jacqueline V, Urban, Laurie, Riesen, Timm, Meech, Karen J, Abe, Shinsuke, Yu-Chi, Cheng, Wen-Ping, Chen, Granvik, Mikael, Grav, Tommy, Ip, Wing-Huen, Kinoshita, Daisuke, Kleyna, Jan, Lacerda, Pedro, Lister, Tim, Milani, Andrea, Tholen, David J, Veres, Peter, Lisse, Carey M, Kelley, Michael S, Fernandez, Yanga R, Bhatt, Bhuwan C, Sahu, Devendra K, Kaiser, Nick, Chambers, K C, Hodapp, Klaus W, Magnier, Eugene A, Price, Paul A, Tonry, John L
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Asteroids Clusters CN emission Comet nuclei Comets Computer simulation Dust Morphology Photometry Physics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics Point spread functions Sublimation
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