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Finally, Astronomy and Astrophysics for August (vol. 700):

de la Fuente Marcos, R. Alarcon, M. R. Licandro, J. et al.  Assessing interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with the 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias and the Two-meter Twin Telescope  L9  202556439
Alvarez-Candal, A. Rizos, J. L. Lara, L. M. et al.  X-SHOOTER spectrum of comet 3I/ATLAS: Insights into a distant interstellar visitor  L10  202556338
de la Fuente Marcos, R. de la Fuente Marcos, C. Văduvescu, O.  Shepherding Miorita and its flock: A group of near-Earth asteroids driven by apsidal and von Zeipel-Lidov-Kozai secular re… L21  202556002
Trógolo, N. Campo Bagatin, A. Parro, L. M. et al.  Evolution of ejecta in the (65803) Didymos system driven by the fast-spin primary – Stability conditions, mass transfer, and orbiting disk  A164  202555138
Beniyama, J. Bolin, B. T. Sergeyev, A. V. et al.  Multi-epoch spectrophotometric characterization of the mini-moon 2024 PT5 in the visible and near-infrared  A183  202555633

de la Fuente Marcos et al. and Alvarez-Candal et al. I had already covered, as preprints. A&A now publishes the official papers.

The (622577) Miorita paper is also in the field of expertise of Prof. Raúl de la Fuente Marcos. Here, he and coauthors describe the dynamics of the eponymous asteroid and its family, steered by various secondary effects. This is more than academic- besides testing various pathways for longer-term orbital evolution, Miorita and the Miorita family are Earth-crossing bodies, and may evolve into impactors.

On a (very) smaller scale, the orbital evolution of material scattered in the DART experiment continues. As have other authors, Trógolo et al. try to predict the outcome of ejecta from the Dimorphos target, and what Hera might see when it gets to the Didymos-Dimorphos system.

Much more straighforward is Beniyama et al., describing observations of our last mini-moon (technically, temporarily-captured flyby), 2024 PT5. The change in magnitude (and thus rotation, likely) is observed. Using two, complementary telescopes, PT5 appears to be S-type or possibly Q-type.

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