The small bodies of our solar system are the remnants of the early stages of planetary
formation. A considerable amount of information regarding the processes that occurred …

The planetary and lunar ephemerides DE430 and DE431 are generated by fitting
numerically integrated orbits of the Moon and planets to observations. The present-day lunar …

A review of observations and theories regarding binary asteroids and binary trans-
Neptunian objects [collectively, binary minor planets (BMPs)] is presented. To date, these …

The Trojan population consists of two swarms of asteroids following the same orbit as
Jupiter and located at the L4 and L5 stable Lagrange points of the Jupiter–Sun system …

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 …

Binaries have played a crucial role many times in the history of modern astronomy and are
doing so again in the rapidly evolving exploration of the Kuiper Belt. The large fraction of …

As an application of our recent observational error model, we present the astrometric
masses of 26 main-belt asteroids. We also present an integrated ephemeris of 300 large …

This paper presents results from a high spatial resolution survey of 33 main-belt asteroids
with diameters> 40 km using the Keck II Adaptive Optics (AO) facility. Five of these (45 …

After decades of speculation, the existence of binary asteroids has been observationally
confirmed,, with examples in all minor planet populations. However, no triple systems have …

Abstract About 40 trans-Neptunian binaries (TNBs) have fully determined orbits with about
10 others being solved except for breaking the mirror ambiguity. Despite decades of study …