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The geology and evolution of the Near-Earth binary asteroid system (65803) Didymos [PDF]

Nature Communications
Images collected during NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission provide the first resolved views of the Didymos binary asteroid system.
Olivier Barnouin, Ronald-Louis Ballouz, Simone Marchi, Jean-Baptiste Vincent, Harrison Agrusa, Yun Zhang, Carolyn M. Ernst, Maurizio Pajola, Filippo Tusberti, Alice Lucchetti, R. Terik Daly, Eric Palmer, Kevin J. Walsh, Patrick Michel, Jessica M. Sunshine, Juan L. Rizos, Tony L. Farnham, Derek C. Richardson, Laura M. Parro, Naomi Murdoch, Colas Q. Robin, Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Tomas Kahout, Erik Asphaug, Sabina D. Raducan, Martin Jutzi, Fabio Ferrari, Pedro Henrique Aragao Hasselmann, Adriano CampoBagatin, Nancy L. Chabot, Jian-Yang Li, Andrew F. Cheng, Michael C. Nolan, Angela M. Stickle, Ozgur Karatekin, Elisabetta Dotto, Vincenzo Della Corte, Elena Mazzotta Epifani, Alessandro Rossi, Igor Gai, Jasinghege Don Prasanna Deshapriya, Ivano Bertini, Angelo Zinzi, Josep M. Trigo-Rodriguez, Joel Beccarelli, Stavro Lambrov Ivanovski, John Robert Brucato, Giovanni Poggiali, Giovanni Zanotti, Marilena Amoroso, Andrea Capannolo, Gabriele Cremonese, Massimo Dall’Ora, Simone Ieva, Gabriele Impresario, Michèle Lavagn, Dario Modenini, Pasquale Palumbo, Davide Perna, Simone Pirrotta, Paolo Tortora, Marco Zannoni, Andrew S. Rivkin   +62 more
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The unexpected surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu [PDF]

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 prebiotic molecules and volatiles such as water to Earth1.
D. S. Lauretta, D. N. DellaGiustina, C. A. Bennett, D. R. Golish, K. J. Becker, S. S. Balram‐Knutson, O. S. Barnouin, T. L. Becker, W. F. Bottke, W. V. Boynton, H. Campins, B. E. Clark, H. C. Connolly, C. Drouet d’Aubigny, Jason P. Dworkin, Joshua P. Emery, H. Enos, V. E. Hamilton, C. W. Hergenrother, E. S. Howell, M. R. M. Izawa, H. H. Kaplan, M. C. Nolan, B. Rizk, H. L. Roper, Daniel J. Scheeres, P. H. Smith, K. J. Walsh, C. W. V. Wolner, C. W. V. Wolner   +29 more
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Isolating the mechanisms for asteroid surface refreshing [PDF]

Icarus, 2022
Evidence is seen for young, fresh surfaces among Near-Earth and Main-Belt asteroids even though space-weathering timescales are shorter than the age of the surfaces. A number of mechanisms have been proposed to refresh asteroid surfaces on short timescales, such as planetary encounters, YORP spinup, thermal degradation, and collisions.
F. E. DeMeo, Michaël Marsset, David Polishook, Brian Burt, Richard P. Binzel, Sunao Hasegawa, Mikael Granvik, Nicholas Moskovitz, A. M. Earle, S. J. Bus, Cristina A. Thomas, A. S. Rivkin, Stephen M. Slivan   +12 more
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Sulfide minerals bear witness to impacts across the solar system [PDF]

Nature Communications
Sulfide minerals are ubiquitous in extraterrestrial sample collections and serve as a unique record of the microstructural and chemical characteristics resulting from exposure to interplanetary space on airless planetary surfaces.
Michelle S. Thompson, Jemma Davidson, Devin L. Schrader, Thomas J. Zega   +3 more
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Periodic motion near the surface of asteroids [PDF]

Astrophysics and Space Science, 2015
We are interested in the periodic motion and bifurcations near the surface of an asteroid. The gravity field of an irregular asteroid and the equation of motion of a particle near the surface of an asteroid are studied. The periodic motions around the major body of triple asteroid 216 Kleopatra and the OSIRIS REx mission target asteroid 101955 Bennu ...
Yu Jiang, Hexi Baoyin, Hengnian Li
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Fast boulder fracturing by thermal fatigue detected on stony asteroids [PDF]

Nature Communications
Spacecraft observations revealed that rocks on carbonaceous asteroids, which constitute the most numerous class by composition, can develop millimeter-to-meter-scale fractures due to thermal stresses.
A. Lucchetti, S. Cambioni, R. Nakano, O. S. Barnouin, M. Pajola, L. Penasa, F. Tusberti, K. T. Ramesh, E. Dotto, C. M. Ernst, R. T. Daly, E. Mazzotta Epifani, M. Hirabayashi, L. Parro, G. Poggiali, A. Campo Bagatin, R.-L. Ballouz, N. L. Chabot, P. Michel, N. Murdoch, J. B. Vincent, Ö. Karatekin, A. S. Rivkin, J. M. Sunshine, T. Kohout, J.D.P. Deshapriya, P.H.A. Hasselmann, S. Ieva, J. Beccarelli, S. L. Ivanovski, A. Rossi, F. Ferrari, C. Rossi, S. D. Raducan, J. Steckloff, S. Schwartz, J. R. Brucato, M. Dall’Ora, A. Zinzi, A. F. Cheng, M. Amoroso, I. Bertini, A. Capannolo, S. Caporali, M. Ceresoli, G. Cremonese, V. Della Corte, I. Gai, L. Gomez Casajus, E. Gramigna, G. Impresario, R. Lasagni Manghi, M. Lavagna, M. Lombardo, D. Modenini, P. Palumbo, D. Perna, S. Pirrotta, P. Tortora, M. Zannoni, G. Zanotti   +60 more
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Radar Circular Polarization Ratio of Near-Earth Asteroids: Links to Spectral Taxonomy and Surface Processes

The Planetary Science Journal
The radar circular polarization ratio (CPR) is an indicator of near-surface, wavelength-scale complexity. Interestingly, previous surveys also noted an association between near-Earth asteroid (NEA) disk-integrated CPR and spectral taxonomic class ...
Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín, Betzaida Aponte-Hernández, Patrick A. Taylor, Michael C. Nolan, Ellen S. Howell, Dany Waller, Luisa F. Zambrano-Marín, Anne K. Virkki, Ronald-Louis Ballouz, Angela M. Stickle   +9 more
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THERMAL TOMOGRAPHY OF ASTEROID SURFACE STRUCTURE [PDF]

The Astrophysical Journal, 2016
ABSTRACT Knowledge of the surface thermal inertia of an asteroid can provide insight into its surface structure: porous material has a lower thermal inertia than rock. We develop a means to estimate thermal inertia values of asteroids and use it to show that thermal inertia appears to increase with spin period in the case of main-belt ...
Harris, Alan, Drube, Line
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Surface Properties of Near-Sun Asteroids

The Planetary Science Journal, 2022
Abstract Near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) with small perihelion distances reach subsolar temperatures of ≥1000 K. They are hypothesized to undergo “supercatastrophic” disruption, potentially caused by near-Sun processes such as thermal cracking, spin-up, meteoroid impacts, and subsurface volatile release, all of which are likely to cause ...
Carrie E. Holt, Matthew M. Knight, Michael S. P. Kelley, Quanzhi 泉 志 Ye 叶, Henry H. Hsieh, Colin Snodgrass, Alan Fitzsimmons, Derek C. Richardson, Jessica M. Sunshine, Nora L. Eisner, Annika Gustaffson   +10 more
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The Increasingly Strange Polarimetric Behavior of the Barbarian Asteroids

The Planetary Science Journal, 2023
Polarization phase-curve measurements provide a unique constraint on the surface properties of asteroids that are complementary to those from photometry and spectroscopy and have led to the identification of the “Barbarian” asteroids as a class of ...
Joseph R. Masiero, Maxime Devogèle, Isabella Macias, Joahan Castaneda Jaimes, Alberto Cellino   +4 more
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