| Deep impact: excavating comet Tempel 1 MF A'Hearn, MJS Belton, WA Delamere, J Kissel, KP Klaasen, ... science 310 (5746), 258-264, 2005 | 857 | 2005 |
| EPOXI at comet Hartley 2 MF A’Hearn, MJS Belton, WA Delamere, LM Feaga, D Hampton, J Kissel, ... Science 332 (6036), 1396-1400, 2011 | 479 | 2011 |
| A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid KJ Meech, R Weryk, M Micheli, JT Kleyna, OR Hainaut, R Jedicke, ... Nature 552 (7685), 378-381, 2017 | 393 | 2017 |
| Spitzer spectral observations of the Deep Impact ejecta CM Lisse, J VanCleve, AC Adams, MF A'hearn, YR Fernández, ... Science 313 (5787), 635-640, 2006 | 374 | 2006 |
| The Deep Ecliptic Survey: A search for Kuiper belt objects and Centaurs. II. Dynamical classification, the Kuiper belt plane, and the core population JL Elliot, SD Kern, KB Clancy, AAS Gulbis, RL Millis, MW Buie, ... The Astronomical Journal 129 (2), 1117, 2005 | 317 | 2005 |
| Exposed water ice deposits on the surface of comet 9P/Tempel 1 JM Sunshine, MF A'hearn, O Groussin, JY Li, MJS Belton, WA Delamere, ... Science 311 (5766), 1453-1455, 2006 | 237 | 2006 |
| Report of the IAU working group on cartographic coordinates and rotational elements: 2015 BA Archinal, CH Acton, MF A’hearn, A Conrad, GJ Consolmagno, ... Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 130, 1-46, 2018 | 232 | 2018 |
| Cometary grain scattering versus wavelength, or'What color is comet dust'? D Jewitt, KJ Meech Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 310, Nov. 15, 1986, p …, 1986 | 214 | 1986 |
| Short GRB 130603B: discovery of a jet break in the optical and radio afterglows, and a mysterious late-time X-ray excess W Fong, E Berger, BD Metzger, R Margutti, R Chornock, G Migliori, ... The Astrophysical Journal 780 (2), 118, 2013 | 209 | 2013 |
| Evidence for primordial water in Earth’s deep mantle LJ Hallis, GR Huss, K Nagashima, GJ Taylor, SA Halldórsson, DR Hilton, ... Science 350 (6262), 795-797, 2015 | 206 | 2015 |
| Non-gravitational acceleration in the trajectory of 1I/2017 U1 (‘Oumuamua) M Micheli, D Farnocchia, KJ Meech, MW Buie, OR Hainaut, D Prialnik, ... Nature 559 (7713), 223-226, 2018 | 202 | 2018 |
| Deep Impact: Observations from a worldwide Earth-based campaign KJ Meech, N Ageorges, MF A'Hearn, C Arpigny, A Ates, J Aycock, ... science 310 (5746), 265-269, 2005 | 197 | 2005 |
| The atmosphere of 2060 Chiron KJ Meech, MJS Belton Astronomical Journal (ISSN 0004-6256), vol. 100, Oct. 1990, p. 1323-1338 …, 1990 | 188 | 1990 |
| Charge exchange-induced X-ray emission from Comet C/1999 S4 (LINEAR) CM Lisse, DJ Christian, K Dennerl, KJ Meech, R Petre, HA Weaver, ... Science 292 (5520), 1343-1348, 2001 | 173 | 2001 |
| 2060 Chiron: Colorimetry and cometary behavior WK Hartmann, DJ Tholen, KJ Meech, DP Cruikshank Icarus 83 (1), 1-15, 1990 | 172 | 1990 |
| Cometary volatiles and the origin of comets MF A'Hearn, LM Feaga, HU Keller, H Kawakita, DL Hampton, J Kissel, ... The Astrophysical Journal 758 (1), 29, 2012 | 162 | 2012 |
| The shape, topography, and geology of Tempel 1 from Deep Impact observations PC Thomas, J Veverka, MJS Belton, A Hidy, MF A'Hearn, TL Farnham, ... Icarus 187 (1), 4-15, 2007 | 162 | 2007 |
| Using cometary activity to trace the physical and chemical evolution of cometary nuclei KJ Meech, J Svoren Comets II 317, 2004 | 162 | 2004 |
| Comet nucleus size distributions from HST and Keck telescopes KJ Meech, OR Hainaut, BG Marsden Icarus 170 (2), 463-491, 2004 | 161 | 2004 |
| Surface temperature of the nucleus of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 O Groussin, MF A'Hearn, JY Li, PC Thomas, JM Sunshine, CM Lisse, ... Icarus 187 (1), 16-25, 2007 | 148 | 2007 |
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