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Scaling forces to asteroid surfaces: The role of cohesion

, 2010
The scaling of physical forces to the extremely low ambient gravitational acceleration regimes found on the surfaces of small asteroids is performed. Resulting from this, it is found that van der Waals cohesive forces between regolith grains on asteroid ...
Hartzell, C. M., Sanchez, P., Scheeres, D. J., Swift, M.   +3 more
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Asteroid spin-rate studies using large sky-field surveys

Geoscience Letters, 2017
Eight campaigns to survey asteroid rotation periods have been carried out using the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory in the past 3 years. 2780 reliable rotation periods were obtained, from which we identified two new super-fast rotators (SFRs ...
Chan-Kao Chang, Hsing-Wen Lin, Wing-Huen Ip, Thomas A. Prince, Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, David Levitan, Russ Laher, Jason Surace   +7 more
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The Effect of Tip Design on Technological Performance During the Exploration of Earth, Lunar, and Martian Soil Environments

Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 43, Issue 1, Page 387-408, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the penetration performance of soil‐burrowing probes with different tip designs during shallow‐depth penetration in various media, including terrestrial soils (Hostun sand) and well‐characterized planetary soil simulants (LHS‐1 Lunar regolith simulant and MGS‐1 Martian regolith simulant).
Serena Rosa Maria Pirrone, Emanuela Del Dottore, Gunter Just, Barbara Mazzolai, Luc Sibille   +4 more
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The Secular Dynamical Evolution of Binary Asteroid System (65803) Didymos Post-DART

The Planetary Science Journal
The successful impact of NASA’s DART mission with Dimorphos, the secondary body of binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos, altered the attitude, shape, and orbit of Dimorphos.
Rachel H. Cueva, Jay W. McMahon, Alex J. Meyer, Daniel J. Scheeres, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Sabina D. Raducan, Seth A. Jacobson, Colby C. Merrill   +7 more
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Formation of Asteroid (16) Psyche by a Giant Impact

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 1, January 2026.
Abstract Asteroid (16) Psyche is the largest likely metal‐rich asteroid in the Solar System and the target of the NASA Psyche mission. The mission aims to determine whether the asteroid is the core of a differentiated planetesimal that lost its mantle via a giant impact.
Saverio Cambioni, Benjamin P. Weiss, Namya Baijal, Robert Melikyan, Erik Asphaug, John B. Biersteker, Richard P. Binzel, William F. Bottke, Samuel W. Courville, Linda T. Elkins‐Tanton, David J. Lawrence, José M. G. Merayo, Carol A. Raymond, Mark A. Wieczorek, Maria T. Zuber   +14 more
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Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
We present lightcurves, rotation periods, and colors for the first asteroid discoveries made with the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory. These are the first science results derived from the 2103 asteroid discoveries released as part of the Rubin First ...
Sarah Greenstreet, Zhuofu (Chester) Li, Dmitrii E. Vavilov, Devanshi Singh, Mario Jurić, Željko Ivezić, Siegfried Eggl, Alec Koumjian, Joachim Moeyens, Valerio Carruba, Maria Womack, Mikael Granvik, Anastasia Alexov, Pierre Antilogus, B̌rian J. Baumanć, Eric C. Bellm, Alexandre Boucaud, Andrew Bradshaw, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Hsin-Fang Chiang, Philip N. Daly, Felipe Daruich, Guillaume Daubard, Erik Dennihy, Stephanie JH Deppe, Holger Drass, Emmanuel Gangler, Laurent Le Guillou, Leanne P. Guy, Patrick A. Hascall, Patrick Ingraham, M. James Jee, Tim Jenness, Steven M. Kahn, Arun Kannawadi, Lee S. Kelvin, Jacob A. Kurlander, Didier Laporte, Nate B. Lust, Mostafa Lutfi, Lauren A. MacArthur, Gabriele Mainetti, Moniez Marc, Andrés A. Plazas Malagón, David Jiménez Mejías, F̌elipe Menanteau, David J. Mills, William O’Mullane, Angelo Fausti Neto, Jeremy Neveu, Erfan Nourbakhsh, HyeYun Park, Maria T Patterson, John R. Peterson, Bruno C. Quint, Tiago Ribeiro, Stephen T. Ridgway, Wouter van Reeven, Jacques Sebag, Nima Sedaghat, Richard A. Shaw, Alan L. Strauss, Krzysztof Suberlak, Ian S. Sullivan, John D. Swinbank, Sandrine Thomas, Adam Thornton, W. M. Wood-Vasey, Christopher W. Walter, Charlotte Ward, Beth Willman   +70 more
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JAXA curation for Bennu samples returned by the NASA's OSIRIS‐REx mission

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 182-207, January 2026.
Abstract NASA's OSIRIS‐REx mission successfully collected and returned ~121.6 g of bulk samples from the B‐type, near‐Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu to Earth in September 2023. Upon returning to Earth, the samples were transported to the NASA Johnson Space Center where most of the samples have been stored and processed.
Rui Tahara, Kentaro Hatakeda, Masahiro Nishimura, Kasumi Yogata, Ryota Fukai, Akiko Miyazaki, Toru Yada, Yuma Enokido, Masanao Abe, Seiya Kawasaki, Ryosuke Sakurai, Tatsuaki Okada, Cedric Pilorget, Jean‐Pierre Bibring, Vincent Hamm, Lionel Lourit, Damien Loizeau, Lucie Riu, Koki Yumoto, Yuichiro Cho, Seiji Sugita, Shumpei Nakahara, Shoki Mori, Yuta Aikyo, Shingo Kameda, Roger Stabbins, Yuta Shimizu, Hideaki Miyamoto, Yuya Hitomi, Arisa Nakano, Kana Nagashima, Haruna Sugahara, Shino Suzuki, Shunta Kimura, Tomohiro Usui   +34 more
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Modeling enstatite chondrites: Reduced rocks with a pinch of oxidized material (affected by varying H2O(g)) derived from planetesimals shocked during the epoch of giant–planet migration

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 122-139, January 2026.
Abstract The O‐, N‐, Mo‐, Ru‐, Os‐, Cr‐, Ti‐, Ni‐, Fe‐, Nd‐, Ca‐, Zn‐, Sr‐, and Mg‐isotopic compositions of enstatite chondrites are essentially identical to those of the Earth and Moon. These correspondences suggest enstatite chondrites formed at ≈1 AU as the only known chondrite groups that accreted in the vicinity of a major planet. Bulk Earth has a
Alan E. Rubin
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Rotationally Resolved Mid-infrared Spectroscopy of (16) Psyche

The Planetary Science Journal
Asteroid (16) Psyche is theorized to be an exposed iron core of a primordial asteroid and is the target of the upcoming NASA Psyche mission. Recent observations of Psyche identified the presence of rotational heterogeneity, a fine-grained regolith ...
Anicia Arredondo, Margaret M. McAdam, Tracy M. Becker, Linda Elkins-Tanton, Zoe Landsman, Thomas Müller   +5 more
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Occurrence and characterization of nanosulfide‐rich regions on asteroid Ryugu: Insights from mackinawite and pyrrhotite

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue 1, Page 168-181, January 2026.
Abstract Samples returned from asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 mission are dominated by fine‐grained matrix material made of phyllosilicates and nanosulfides. Here, we report the mineralogical, textural, and chemical characteristics of nanosulfide‐rich regions identified in Ryugu particles.
Roberto Conconi, Hugues Leroux, Maya Marinova, Sylvain Laforet, Damien Jacob, Léna Jossé, Alice Aléon‐Toppani, Zélia Dionnet, Rosario Brunetto, Corentin Le Guillou   +9 more
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