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ASTEROID TAXONOMY V1.0

This dataset provides asteroid taxonomic classifications of the Tholen, Barucci, and Tedesco classification systems.

ASTEROID POLARIMETRIC DATABASE V2.0

The Asteroid Polarimetric Database (APD) is compiled by Dmitrij Lupishko of Kharkov University. This database tabulates the original data comprising degree of polarization as a function of phase angle of the asteroid, and additional parameters where available. This data set, together with 'polar.tab' containing the TRIAD polarimetry, includes most if not all existing asteroid polarimetry data published by 1996. The APD is an ongoing compilation and this data set will be updated yearly.

NEAR GRS SPECTRA EROS ON ASTEROID

This data set contains reduced (integrated and corrected) science data products from observations acquired by the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Gamma Ray Spectrometer (GRS) instrument during the Eros Surface phase.

ASTEROID OCCULTATIONS V8.0

This data set is intended to include all reported timings of observed asteroid, planet, and planetary satellite occultation events as well as occultation axes derived from those timings by David W. Dunham and David Herald. This version is complete through the end of 2009.

ASTEROID POLARIMETRIC DATABASE V6.0

The Asteroid Polarimetric Database (APD) is a collection of asteroid polarimetry results compiled by D.F. Lupishko and S.V. Vasiliev of Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine. It is intended to include most asteroid polarimetry available through January 22, 2008.

ASTEROID NAMES AND DISCOVERY V10.0

This data set includes names, designations, and discovery circumstances for the asteroids numbered as of March 14, 2006.

ASTEROID NAMES AND DISCOVERY

This data set includes names, designations, and discovery circumstances for the asteroids numbered as of April 20, 2008.

SHAPE MODEL OF ASTEROID (153591) 2001 SN263 V1.0

We present the three-dimensional shapes and rotation states of the three components of near-Earth asteroid (153591) 2001 SN263 based on radar images and optical lightcurves (Becker et al., 2015. 2001 SN263 was observed in 2003 using the 12.6-cm radar at Arecibo Observatory. Optical lightcurves were obtained at several observatories and used to further constrain the shape modeling.

KHARKIV ASTEROID MAGNITUDE-PHASE RELATIONS

A database of asteroid magnitude-phase relations compiled at the Institute of Astronomy of Kharkiv Kharazin University by Shevchenko et al., including observations from 1978 through 2008. Mainly the observations were performed at the Institute of Astronomy (Kharkiv, Ukraine) and at the Astrophysics Institute (Dushanbe, Tadjikistan). For most asteroids the magnitude-phase relations were obtained down to phase angles less than 1 deg. For some asteroids the magnitudes are presented in three (UBV) or four (BVRI) standard spectral bands.

ASTEROID OCCULTATIONS V2.0

This data set is intended to include all reported timings of observed asteroid occultation events through Mar. 1, 2004, as well as asteroid occultation axes derived from those timings by David W. Dunham and David Herald.

NEAR-INFRARED PHOTOMETRY OF ASTEROIDS FROM DENIS V1.0

The DENIS program (Deep European Near-Infrared southern sky Survey) was a ground-based survey of the southern sky with the aim of providing an extensive I,J,Ks photometric catalog of point and extended sources. It was carried out at the 1.0 meter ESO telescope at La Silla, Chile from late 1995 through the end of 1999. This data set contains the DENIS I,J,Ks photometry for 2000 known asteroids identified in the DENIS catalog.

TRIAD ASTEROID POLARIMETRY V2.0

This data set contains the data originally archived in TRIAD and reported in Morrison & Zellner, Asteroids (T. Gehrels, Ed., The University of Arizona Press, 1979) [MORRISON&ZELLNER1979]. It tabulates the reduced values of the polarization curves of the asteroids, namely minimum polarization, inversion angle, and polarimetric slope.

NESVORNY HCM ASTEROID FAMILIES

This data set contains asteroid dynamical family memberships for 122 families calculated from synthetic proper elements, including high-inclination families. These families were calculated by David Nesvorny (Nesvorny et al. 2015) using his code based on the Hierarchical Clustering Method (HCM) described in Zappala et al. (1990, 1994). The input synthetic proper elements for 384,337 numbered asteroids were calculated by Knezevic and Milani.

ASTEROID DYNAMICAL FAMILIES V4.0

This dataset has been superseded by version 4.1 of the data. Dynamical family classification of asteroids by Zappala, et al., based on the hierarchical clustering method.

FIEBER-BEYER IRTF MAINBELT ASTEROID SPECTRA

The data set contains observations obtained with the NASA IRTF SpeX instrument covering the 0.7 to 2.5 micron near-infrared portion of the spectrum. The data set archives reduced, calibrated spectra which were obtained and used in Sherry Fieber-Beyer's Ph.D. dissertation at the University of North Dakota and archives reduced, calibrated spectra subsequent 2010. The research focused on asteroids in a zone centered on the 3:1 resonance. These spectra were used to mineralogically characterize asteroids in this zone in an attempt to identify their meteorite analogs.

ASTEROID NAMES AND DISCOVERY V3.0

This data set includes names, designations, and discovery circumstances for the numbered asteroids, sorted in order of catalog number.

ASTEROID ALBEDOS

This data set comprises a compilation of asteroid albedos for the convenience of the user. Most but not all of the albedos compiled here also appear in other PDS data sets.

ASTEROID BIBLIOGRAPHY V1.0

A comprehensive compilation of asteroid-related references, produced by Clifford Cunningham (1990). [CUNNINGHAM1990]

ASTEROID POLARIMETRIC DATABASE V5.0

The Asteroid Polarimetric Database (APD) is a collection of asteroid polarimetry results compiled by D.F. Lupishko of Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine. It is intended to include most asteroid polarimetry available through March 21, 2006.

ASTEROID (101955) BENNU SHAPE MODEL V1.0

We present the three-dimensional shape of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ36) based on radar images and optical lightcurves (Nolan et al., 2013). Bennu was observed both in 1999 at its discovery apparition, and in 2005 using the 12.6-cm radar at the Arecibo Observatory and the 3.5-cm radar at the Goldstone tracking station. Data obtained in both apparitions were used to construct a shape model of this object. Observations were also obtained at many other wavelengths to characterize this object, some of which were used to further constrain the shape modeling (Clark et al., 2011; Hergenrother et al., 2013; Krugly et al., 1999).