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Stellar Occultation by the Resonant Trans-Neptunian Object (523764) 2014 WC510 Reveals a Close Binary TNO

Buie, Marc W.; Wasserman, Lawrence H.; Leiva, Rodrigo +22 more

We report on the stellar occultation by (523764) 2014 WC₅₁₀ observed on 2018 December 1 UT. This occultation campaign was part of the Research and Education Collaborative Occultation Network (RECON), a network of small telescopes spread over 2000 km in western USA and Canada. Light curves from six stations revealed three groups of two o…

Recurrent Cometary Activity in Near-Earth Object (3552) Don Quixote

Smith, Howard A.; Hora, Joseph L.; Agarwal, Jessica +12 more

We report on observations of activity in near-Earth object (3552) Don Quixote using the Spitzer Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes around its 2018 perihelion passage. Spitzer observations obtained six months before perihelion show extended emission around the target's nucleus that is most likely caused by molecular band emission from eith…