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3D SR‐μXCT analysis for lithology detection: Application to Ryugu sample A0159

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Extraterrestrial breccia samples are formed through impact‐related processes that combine the fragments of distinct lithologies. As such, they are valuable indicators of the complex formation and evolution history of planetesimals in our solar system.
Léna Jossé, Zélia Dionnet, Alice Aléon‐Toppani, Rosario Brunetto, Andrew King, Emmanuel Gardés, Eva Heripré, Damien Loizeau, Sasha Cryan, Kentaro Hatakeda   +9 more
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The Active Asteroids Citizen Science Program: Overview and First Results

The Astronomical Journal
We present the Citizen Science program Active Asteroids and describe discoveries stemming from our ongoing project. Our NASA Partner program is hosted on the Zooniverse online platform and launched on 2021 August 31, with the goal of engaging the ...
Colin Orion Chandler, Chadwick A. Trujillo, William J. Oldroyd, Jay K. Kueny, William A. Burris, Henry H. Hsieh, Jarod A. DeSpain, Nima Sedaghat, Scott S. Sheppard, Kennedy A. Farrell, David E. Trilling, Annika Gustafsson, Mark Jesus Mendoza Magbanua, Michele T. Mazzucato, Milton K. D. Bosch, Tiffany Shaw-Diaz, Virgilio Gonano, Al Lamperti, José A. da Silva Campos, Brian L. Goodwin, Ivan A. Terentev, Charles J. A. Dukes, Sam Deen   +22 more
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Noble gases and nitrogen in material from asteroid Bennu

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We report the elemental and isotopic abundances of all stable noble gases (helium, neon, argon, krypton, and xenon) in eight particles from asteroid Bennu returned by NASA's OSIRIS‐REx mission. We also report nitrogen abundances and isotopic ratios that were analyzed alongside neon and argon in four additional Bennu particles.
B. Marty, L. Zimmermann, E. Füri, D. V. Bekaert, J. J. Barnes, A. N. Nguyen, H. C. Connolly, D. S. Lauretta   +7 more
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The fall of the Haag (LL4‐6) chondrite breccia—Just 8 years after the nearby fall Stubenberg (LL6)

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract On October 24, 2024, an impressive fireball was visible over Austria. After the possible strewn field was calculated, the first sample of the Haag meteorite, with a mass of 8.76 g, was discovered on November 2, 2024, 8 days after the fireball event. Four more samples were found afterward putting the total sample mass at about 151 g.
Addi Bischoff, Markus Patzek, Jean‐Alix Barrat, Stig Bartel, Jasper Berndt, Henner Busemann, Tommaso Di Rocco, Mattias Ek, Manuela A. Fehr, Dieter Heinlein, Daniela Krietsch, Björn Lehnert, Colin Maden, Oscar Marchhart, Martin Martschini, Silke Merchel, Andreas Pack, Andrea Patzer, Marie Pichotta, Maximilian P. Reitze, Philippe Schmitt‐Kopplin, Maria Schönbächler, Leon Thannheiser, Iris Weber, Alexander Wieser, Karl Wimmer   +25 more
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Expected spectral characteristics of (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, targets of the OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 missions

, 2018
NASA's OSIRIS-REx and JAXA's Hayabusa2 sample-return missions are currently on their way to encounter primitive near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, respectively.
Alí-Lagoa, V., Campins, H., de León, J., De Prá, M., DellaGiustina, D. N., Lauretta, D. S., Licandro, J., Lorenzi, V., Morate, D., Pinilla-Alonso, N., Popescu, M., Rizos, J. L.   +11 more
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Sulfide–Metal Assemblages on CR2 Chondrule Rims: Products of Nebular Fission–Sulfidization and Parent Body Oxidation–Serpentinization

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We conducted a scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study of sulfide–metal assemblages (SMAs) in minimally to moderately altered CR2 chondrites. The assemblages occur on chondrule rims and consist of kamacite cores rimmed by pyrrhotite.
S. A. Singerling, A. J. Brearley
wiley   +1 more source

Candidate Main-belt Asteroids for Surface Heterogeneity

The Astronomical Journal
Large terrestrial bodies in our solar system like the Earth, Mars, Mercury, and the Moon exhibit geologically complex surfaces with compositional heterogeneity.
Sunao Hasegawa, Michaël Marsset, Francesca E. DeMeo, Josef Hanuš, Richard P. Binzel, Schelte J. Bus, Brian Burt, David Polishook, Cristina A. Thomas, Jooyeon Geem, Masateru Ishiguro, Daisuke Kuroda, Pierre Vernazza   +12 more
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Reconstructing the size distribution of the primordial Main Belt

, 2017
In this work we aim to constrain the slope of the size distribution of main-belt asteroids, at their primordial state. To do so we turn out attention to the part of the main asteroid belt between 2.82 and 2.96~AU, the so-called "pristine zone", which has
Delbo, Marco, Morbidelli, Alessandro, Tsiganis, Kleomenis, Tsirvoulis, Georgios   +3 more
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JAXA curation for Bennu samples returned by the NASA's OSIRIS‐REx mission

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying LL Chondrite Near-Earth Asteroids Using LL Chondrite Reflectance Spectra

The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Most near-Earth objects are thought to originate from the collisional fragments of the main asteroid belt. One question that remains to be resolved is the proportion of near-Earth objects sampling the core area material of the parent body to the outer ...
Pengyue Wang, Edward Cloutis, Ye Su, Man-To Hui   +3 more
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