Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019 Asteroids (Echinodermata) experience mass mortality events that have the potential to cause dramatic shifts in ecosystem structure. Asteroid wasting describes a suite of body wall abnormalities that can ultimately result in animal mortality.
Ian Hewson +10 more
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Thermography of Asteroid and Future Applications in Space Missions
Applied Sciences, 2020 The Near-Earth Asteroid 162173 Ryugu is a C-type asteroid which preserves information about the ancient Solar System and is considered enriched in volatiles such as water and organics associated with the building blocks of life, and it is a potentially ...
Tatsuaki Okada
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The Unexpected Surface of Asteroid (101955) Bennu
Nature, 2019 NASA’S Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft recently arrived at the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, a primitive body that represents the objects that may have brought ...
D. Lauretta +29 more
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Sample collection from asteroid (162173) Ryugu by Hayabusa2: Implications for surface evolution
Science, 2020 Collecting a sample of asteroid Ryugu The Hayabusa2 spacecraft recently traveled to the nearby carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu to collect samples and return them to Earth for laboratory analysis. Morota et al.
T. Morota +94 more
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Design of a Formation of Solar Pumped Lasers for Asteroid Deflection [PDF]
, 2012 This paper presents the design of a multi-spacecraft system for the deflection of asteroids. Each spacecraft is equipped with a fibre laser and a solar concentrator. The laser induces the sublimation of a portion of the surface of the asteroid.
Christie Alisa Maddock +23 more
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Asteroid Photometric Phase Functions From Bayesian Lightcurve Inversion
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2022 Photometry is an important tool for characterizing the physical properties of asteroids. An asteroid’s photometric lightcurve and phase curve refer to the variation of the asteroid’s disk-integrated brightness in time and in phase angle (the Sun-asteroid-
Karri Muinonen +7 more
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Asteroid impact, not volcanism, caused the end-Cretaceous dinosaur extinction
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020 Significance We present a quantitative test of end-Cretaceous extinction scenarios and how these would have affected dinosaur habitats. Combining climate and ecological modeling tools, we demonstrate a substantial detrimental effect on dinosaur habitats ...
Alfio Alessandro Chiarenza +6 more
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On the origin of the Almahata-Sitta meteorite and 2008TC3 asteroid [PDF]
, 2012 Asteroid 2008TC3 was a Near Earth Asteroid that impacted the Earth on 2008 October 7. Meteorites were produced by the break-up of 2008TC3 in the high atmosphere and at present, about 600 meteorites - called Almahata Sitta - coming from 2008TC3 have been ...
Alessandro Morbidelli +53 more
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Rudarsko-geološko-naftni zbornik, 2016 Asteroids are the largest minor bodies in the Solar System. Nowadays they are in the research focus due to several facts about them: first, a subclass of asteroids can collide with Earth, and consequences of such a collision are dramatic. Second, they are now seen as source of materials that are becoming scarce on Earth, and they will be needed in ...
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Environmental Impact of Silicic Magmatism in Large Igneous Province Events
Geophysical Monograph Series, Page 133-151., 2021 Exploring the links between Large Igneous Provinces and dramatic environmental impact
An emerging consensus suggests that Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) and Silicic LIPs (SLIPs) are a significant driver of dramatic global environmental and biological changes, including mass extinctions.
Scott E. Bryan
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