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LICIACube - The Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids In support of the NASA DART mission towards asteroid (65803) Didymos by Dotto, E., Della Corte, V., Amoroso, M., Bertini, I., Brucato, J.R., Capannolo, A., Cotugno, B., Cremonese, G., Di Tana, V., Gai, I., Ieva, S., Impresario, G., Ivanovski, S.L., Lavagna, M., Lucchetti, A., Mazzotta Epifani, E., Meneghin, A., Miglioretti, F., Modenini, D., Pajola, M., Palumbo, P., Perna, D., Pirrotta, S., Poggiali, G., Rossi, A., Simioni, E., Simonetti, S., Tortora, P., Zannoni, M., Zanotti, G., Zinzi, A., Cheng, A.F., Rivkin, A.S., Adams, E.Y., Reynolds, E.L., Fretz, K.

“…“LICIACube – the Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids” is managed by the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and will be part of the NASA DART mission, with…”
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Comets beyond 4 au: How pristine are Oort nuclei? by Fulle, Marco, Lazzarin, M, La Forgia, F, Zakharov, V V, Bertini, I, Mazzotta Epifani, E, Ammannito, E, Buzzoni, A, Capria, M T, Carbognani, A, Da Deppo, V, Della Corte, V, Fiscale, S, Frattin, E, Inno, L, Migliorini, A, Pernechele, C, Rotundi, A, Sindoni, G, Tubiana, C, Milani, G, Aletti, A, Bacci, P, Baj, G, Bellini, F, Bryssinck, E, Di Grazia, M, Facchini, M, Feraco, M, Guido, E, Ligustri, R, Kugel, F, Maestripieri, M, Tirelli, D, Valvasori, A, Snodgrass, C, Jones, G H

“…ABSTRACT The ESA mission Comet Interceptor will target an Oort or interstellar comet during its first approach to the Sun. Meanwhile, the Vera Rubin LSST…”
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A comprehensive study of the opposition effect on 15 NEOs by Ieva, S, Arcoverde, P, Rondón, E, Giunta, A, Dotto, E, Lazzaro, D, Mazzotta Epifani, E, Perna, D, Fanasca, C, Rodrigues, T, Monteiro, F, Medeiros, H, Silva-Cabrera, J S, Di Paola, A

“…ABSTRACT We report the results we derived analyzing photometric measurements obtained at different phase angles for 15 Near-Earth Objects (NEOs), observed from…”
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The very homogeneous surface of the dwarf planet Makemake by Perna, D., Hromakina, T., Merlin, F., Ieva, S., Fornasier, S., Belskaya, I., Mazzotta Epifani, E.

“…Abstract The dwarf planet (136472) Makemake is one of the largest trans-Neptunian objects discovered to date. Noteworthy, the size and surface temperature of…”
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Rotationally resolved spectroscopy of Jupiter Trojans (624) Hektor and (911) Agamemnon by Perna, D, Bott, N, Hromakina, T, Mazzotta Epifani, E, Dotto, E, Doressoundiram, A

“…Abstract We present the first-ever rotationally resolved spectroscopic investigation of (624) Hektor and (911) Agamemnon, the two largest Jupiter Trojans. The…”
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Mercury’s radius change estimates revisited using MESSENGER data by Di Achille, G., Popa, C., Massironi, M., Mazzotta Epifani, E., Zusi, M., Cremonese, G., Palumbo, P.

“…Mapping tectonic features using MESSENGER data mainly acquired at high Sun incidence angle (>50°) reveals previously undetected structures. The analysis of the…”
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DART Impact Ejecta Plume Evolution: Implications for Dimorphos by Cheng, Andrew F., Raducan, S. D., Jutzi, M., Farnham, T. L., Dotto, E., Della Corte, V., Mazzotta Epifani, E., Rossi, A., Gai, I., Deshapriya, J., Hasselmann, P., Bertini, I., Zinzi, A., Ivanovski, S., Brucato, J., Poggiali, Giovanni, Lucchetti, A., Pajola, M., Zanotti, G., Amoroso, M., Capannolo, A., Cremonese, G., Dall’Ora, M., Ieva, S., Impresario, G., Lavagna, M., Modenini, D., Palumbo, P., Perna, D., Pirrotta, S., Tortora, P., Zannoni, M.

“…Abstract The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft impacted the moon Dimorphos of the [65803] Didymos binary system and changed the binary…”
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An efficient algorithm for prioritizing NEA physical observations by Cortese, M., Perozzi, E., Micheli, M., Borgia, B., Dotto, E., Mazzotta Epifani, E., Ieva, S., Barucci, M. A., Perna, D.

“…The present near‐Earth asteroids (NEA) discovery rate has surpassed 1500 objects per year, thus calling for extensive observation campaigns devoted to physical…”
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The distant activity of Short Period Comets– II by Mazzotta Epifani, E., Palumbo, P., Capria, M. T., Cremonese, G., Fulle, M., Colangeli, L.

“…The activity of the Short Period Comets (SPCs) at large heliocentric distance (Rh > 3 au) occurs in a region of the Solar system where the water sublimation…”
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Photometry of the Oort Cloud comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd): Pre-perihelion observations at 5.7 and 2.5AU by Mazzotta Epifani, E., Snodgrass, C., Perna, D., Dall’Ora, M., Palumbo, P., Della Corte, V., Alvarez-Candal, A., Melita, M., Rotundi, A.

“…The aim of this paper is to contribute to the characterization of the general properties of the Long Period Comets (LPCs) family, and in particular to report…”
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The distant activity of short-period comets – I by Mazzotta Epifani, E., Palumbo, P., Capria, M. T., Cremonese, G., Fulle, M., Colangeli, L.

“…A surprisingly large number of short-period comets have been observed with significant activity (a coma and even a well-developed dust tail) at heliocentric…”
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The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (GIADA) Experiment for the Rosetta Mission: Design, Performances and First Results by Colangeli, L, Lopez-Moreno, J J, Palumbo, P, Rodriguez, J, Cosi, M, Corte, VDella, Esposito, F, Fulle, M, Herranz, M, Jeronimo, J M, Lopez-Jimenez, A, Epifani, EMazzotta, Morales, R, Moreno, F, Palomba, E, Rotundi, A

“…The Grain Impact Analyser and Dust Accumulator (GIADA) onboard the ROSETTA mission to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko is devoted to study the cometary dust…”
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Physical characterization of the near-Earth object population by Ieva, S., Dotto, E., Mazzotta Epifani, E., Perna, D., Perozzi, E., Micheli, M.

“… The Near-Earth Object (NEO) population, being the remnants of the building blocks that originally formed our solar system, allows us to understand the…”
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Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko preserved the pebbles that formed planetesimals by Fulle, Marco, Della Corte, V., Rotundi, A., Rietmeijer, F. J. M., Green, S. F., Weissman, P., Accolla, M., Colangeli, L., Ferrari, M., Ivanovski, S., Lopez-Moreno, J. J., Epifani, E. Mazzotta, Morales, R., Ortiz, J. L., Palomba, E., Palumbo, P., Rodriguez, J., Sordini, R., Zakharov, V.

“…Solar system formation models predict that the building blocks of planetesimals were mm- to cm-sized pebbles, aggregates of ices and non-volatile materials,…”
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A colour portrait of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov by Mazzotta Epifani, E., Dotto, E., Perna, D., Ieva, S., Giunta, A., Palumbo, P., Micheli, M.

“…The aim of this paper is to report on the results of a multicolour observing campaign performed at the LBT on the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov during three…”
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The Dimorphos ejecta plume properties revealed by LICIACube by Dotto, E., Deshapriya, J. D. P., Gai, I., Hasselmann, P. H., Mazzotta Epifani, E., Poggiali, G., Rossi, A., Zanotti, G., Zinzi, A., Bertini, I., Brucato, J. R., Dall’Ora, M., Della Corte, V., Ivanovski, S. L., Lucchetti, A., Pajola, M., Amoroso, M., Barnouin, O., Campo Bagatin, A., Capannolo, A., Caporali, S., Ceresoli, M., Chabot, N. L., Cheng, A. F., Cremonese, G., Fahnestock, E. G., Farnham, T. L., Ferrari, F., Gomez Casajus, L., Gramigna, E., Hirabayashi, M., Ieva, S., Impresario, G., Jutzi, M., Lasagni Manghi, R., Lavagna, M., Li, J.-Y., Lombardo, M., Modenini, D., Palumbo, P., Perna, D., Pirrotta, S., Raducan, S. D., Richardson, D. C., Rivkin, A. S., Stickle, A. M., Sunshine, J. M., Tortora, P., Tusberti, F., Zannoni, M.

“…The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) had an impact with Dimorphos (a satellite of the asteroid Didymos) on 26 September 2022 1 . Ground-based…”
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MEDUSA: The ExoMars experiment for in-situ monitoring of dust and water vapour by Colangeli, L., Lopez-Moreno, J.J., Nørnberg, P., Della Corte, V., Esposito, F., Mazzotta Epifani, E., Merrison, J., Molfese, C., Palumbo, P., Rodriguez-Gomez, J.F., Rotundi, A., Visconti, G., Zarnecki, J.C.

“…Dust and water vapour are fundamental components of the Martian atmosphere. In view of tracing the past environmental conditions on Mars, that possibly…”
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Basaltic material in the main belt: a tale of two (or more) parent bodies? by Ieva, S, Dotto, E, Lazzaro, D, Fulvio, D, Perna, D, Mazzotta Epifani, E, Medeiros, H, Fulchignoni, M

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Photometric Observations of the Binary Near-Earth Asteroid (65803) Didymos in 2015–2021 Prior to DART Impact by Pravec, P., Thomas, C. A., Rivkin, A. S., Scheirich, P., Moskovitz, N., Knight, M. M., Snodgrass, C., de León, J., Licandro, J., Popescu, M., Thirouin, A., Föhring, D., Chandler, C. O., Oldroyd, W. J., Trujillo, C. A., Howell, E. S., Green, S. F., Thomas-Osip, J., Sheppard, S. S., Farnham, T. L., Mazzotta Epifani, E., Dotto, E., Ieva, S., Dall’Ora, M., Kokotanekova, R., Carry, B., Souami, D.

“…Abstract We performed photometric observations of the binary near-Earth asteroid (65803) Didymos in support of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)…”
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67P/C-G inner coma dust properties from 2.2 au inbound to 2.0 au outbound to the Sun by Della Corte, V., Rotundi, A., Fulle, M., Ivanovski, S., Green, S. F., Rietmeijer, F. J. M., Colangeli, L., Palumbo, P., Sordini, R., Ferrari, M., Accolla, M., Zakharov, V., Mazzotta Epifani, E., Weissman, P., Gruen, E., Lopez-Moreno, J. J., Rodriguez, J., Bussoletti, E., Crifo, J. F., Esposito, F., Lamy, P. L., McDonnell, J. A. M., Mennella, V., Molina, A., Morales, R., Moreno, F., Palomba, E., Perrin, J. M., Rodrigo, R., Zarnecki, J. C., Cosi, M., Giovane, F., Gustafson, B., Ortiz, J. L., Jeronimo, J. M., Leese, M. R., Herranz, M., Liuzzi, V., Lopez-Jimenez, A. C.

“…GIADA (Grain Impact Analyzer and Dust Accumulator) on-board the Rosetta space probe is designed to measure the momentum, mass and speed of individual dust…”
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