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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chandler, Colin Orion
• Oldroyd, William J.
• Trujillo, Chadwick A.
• Hsieh, Henry H.
• Burris, William A.
• Kueny, Jay K.
• DeSpain, Jarod A.
• Sedaghat, Nima
• Farrell, Kennedy A.
• Magbanua, Mark Jesus Mendoza
• Sheppard, Scott S.
• Mazzucato, Michele T.
• Bosch, Milton K. D.
• Shaw-Diaz, Tiffany
• Gonano, Virgilio
• Lamperti, Al
• da Silva Campos, José A.
• Goodwin, Brian L.
• Terentev, Ivan A.
• Dukes, Charles J. A.

Titel

Mars-Crossing Minor Planet 2018 VL10: a Jupiter-family Comet Discovery via Citizen Science

Ist Teil von

• Research Notes of the AAS, 2023-12, Vol.7 (12), p.279

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

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EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Abstract We announce the discovery of cometary activity emitting from minor planet 2018 VL 10 in Dark Energy Camera images spanning from UT 2018 December 31 to UT 2019 March 3. The activity was identified by volunteers of our NASA Partner program Active Asteroids , a Zooniverse -hosted Citizen Science project designed to find previously unknown activity in known minor planets. Notably, 2018 VL 10 crosses the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, and experiences close approaches of less than 0.5 au with both Earth and Jupiter. We classify 2018 VL 10 as a member of the Jupiter-family comets, a group of objects especially important to understand because they hold important clues about the solar system volatile distribution, past and present.