THE PLANETARY SYSTEM GROUP

Current projects

• Rotation periods of asteroids
• Photometry of Asteroids
• The Asteroid Photometric Catalogue
• Trojan asteroids
• Physical studies of Cybele asteroids
• Astrometry and orbits of asteroids
• Origin of the Jupiter family
• Thermochemical evolution of cometary nuclei
• Nongravitational force modelling
• Kinetic theory applied to cometary evolution
• Gas kinetic simulations of cometary outgassing
• The origin of cometary craters
• Planetary imaging
• CO Outgassing from comet P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1
• Ejection velocities and stability among the Trojan L4 asteroids

Completed projects

• The Uppsala-ESO Asteroid and Comet Survey
• Thermal physics of asteroids
• The irregular shape of small solar system bodies
• Searching for Trans-Neptunian Objects
• Comet-Jupiter impact observations
• Shapes and spin vectors of asteroids
• Hilda asteroids
• A spectroscopic Survey of D-type asteroids
• Near-Earth Asteroid 1620 Geographos
• Searching for comets encountering Jupiter
• Kozai Oscillations