BVRIPHOTOMETRY OF 53 UNUSUAL ASTEROIDS

EURONEAR - Data Mining of Asteroids and Near Earth Asteroids

Besides new observations, mining old photographic plates and CCD image archives represents an opportunity to recover and secure newly discovered asteroids, also to improve the orbits of Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHAs) and Virtual Impactors (VIs). These are the main research aims of the EURONEAR network. As stated by the IAU, the vast collection of image archi...

Mineralogy of Asteroids

The past decade has seen a significant expansion both in the interpretive methodologies used to extract mineralogical information from asteroid spectra and other remote-sensing data and in the number of asteroids for which mineralogical characterizations exist. Robust mineralogical characterizations now exist for more than 40 asteroids, an order a magnitude increase since Asteroids II was publi...

P 53 ( Protein 53 kDa )

Protein Description 393 amino acids; 53 kDa phosphoprotein; contains, from N-term to C-term, a transactivation domain, a DNA-binding domain, nuclear localization signals and a tetramerization domain. Expression Widely expressed. Localisation Nucleus. Function Tumour suppressor gene; P53 is a transcriptional regulator acting as a guardian of the genome; in response to DNA damage, p53 is overexpr...

P 53 ( Protein 53 kDa )

Evolution of Comets Into Asteroids

In the past decade, new observations and new research tools have afforded us a better understanding of the interrelationships between comets and asteroids. The extensive automated surveys for near-Earth objects (NEOs) have serendipitously discovered many objects in comet-like orbits. Dynamical simulation codes have improved to the point where we can simulate the detailed orbital behavior of lar...