Every three years the IAU Working Group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational
Elements revises tables giving the directions of the poles of rotation and the prime meridians …

Context. The classification of the minor bodies of the Solar System based on observables
has been continuously developed and iterated over the past 40 yr. While prior iterations …

The exploration of near‐Earth asteroids has revealed dynamic surfaces characterized by
mobile, unconsolidated material that responds to local geophysical gradients, resulting in …

One important, almost ubiquitous, tool for understanding the surfaces of solid bodies
throughout the solar system is the study of impact craters. While measuring a distribution of …

Airless planetary bodies are covered by a dusty layer called regolith. The grain size of the
regolith determines the temperature and the mechanical strength of the surface layers. Thus …

Reflectance spectroscopy is a powerful tool for the investigation of the nature, history,
evolution, and relationships between asteroids and meteorites. This information provides a …

Asteroid interiors play a key role in our understanding of asteroid formation and evolution.
As no direct interior probing has been done yet, characterisation of asteroids' interiors relies …

Context. The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been routinely
observing Solar System objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations in August 2014 …

The equilibrium points of the gravitational potential field of minor celestial bodies, including
asteroids, comets, and irregular satellites of planets, are studied. In order to understand …

Abstract Hayabusa2 is the Japanese Asteroid Return Mission and targeted the
carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu, conducted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency …