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Measuring the Orbit Drift of Near-Earth Asteroids by the Yarkovsky Effect

The Astrophysical Journal, 2023
The Yarkovsky effect causes the semimajor axis drift of near-Earth asteroids. The drift can be detected by a precise orbit determination process. Using the proposed algorithm, 2233 out of 27,078 near-Earth asteroids are chosen as the initial candidates ...
Xin Liu, Xi-Yun Hou, Zhi-Tao Yang, Qing-Bo Gan, Yao Zhang   +4 more
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Technologized Reproduction in Space: A Space‐Bioethical Case for Assisted Procreation

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT With the increasing feasibility of space colonization, the issue of reproduction in space is becoming more relevant. As new settlements on the Moon, Mars, and other celestial bodies emerge, ensuring generational continuity will be essential for the survival and growth of these communities.
Maurizio Balistreri, Konrad Szocik
wiley   +1 more source

New knowledge about shock events that affected the L‐chondrite parent body from two heavily shocked L6 meteorite finds

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract We report new results from a study of shock‐related features in the L6 ordinary chondrites Northwest Africa (NWA) 4672 and NWA 12841. Our observations confirm the occurrence of eight high‐pressure (HP) minerals in each meteorite, namely, ringwoodite, majorite, akimotoite, wadsleyite, albitic jadeite, lingunite, tuite, and xieite.
I. Baziotis, L. Ferrière, C. Ma, J. Hu, D. Palles, P. D. Asimow   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asteroid Mass Estimation by Mutual Perturbations During Close Encounters After Gaia Focused Product Release

The Astronomical Journal
Mutual perturbations between asteroids during close encounters allow the estimation of their masses using precise astrometric observations. We use all astrometry reported to the Minor Planet Center, high-precision astrometry from ESA’s Gaia Focused ...
Oscar Fuentes-Muñoz, Davide Farnocchia, Jon D. Giorgini, Ryan S. Park   +3 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
wiley   +1 more source

Infrared Colors of Small Serendipitously Found Asteroids in the UKIRT Hemisphere Survey

The Astronomical Journal
The UKIRT Hemisphere Survey covers the northern sky in the infrared from 0° to 60° decl. Current data releases include both J and K bands, with H -band data forthcoming. Here, we present a novel pipeline to recover asteroids from this survey data.
Samantha G. Morrison, Ryder H. Strauss, David E. Trilling, Andy J. López-Oquendo, Justice Bruursema, Frederick J. Vrba   +5 more
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Photometry and Models of Seven Main-Belt Asteroids

Universe
The China Near-Earth Object Survey Telescope (CNEOST) conducted four photometric surveys from 2015 to 2018 using image processing and aperture photometry techniques to obtain extensive light curve data on asteroids. The second-order Fourier series method
Jun Tian, Haibin Zhao, Bin Li, Yongxiong Zhang, Jian Chen, Leonid Elenin, Xiaoping Lu   +6 more
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Static recrystallization of shocked calcite in Ries impact breccias

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Calcite is prone to chemical and microstructural modifications, especially after having been strained at high stresses and strain rates, as during hypervelocity impact events. These modifications include precipitation from pore fluid as well as replacement of strained volumes by recrystallization. In calcite aggregates of a metagranite breccia
Claudia A. Trepmann, Fabian Dellefant, Lina Seybold, Wolfgang W. Schmahl, Elena Sturm, Daniel Weidendorfer, Sandro Jahn, Iuliia V. Sleptsova, Stuart A. Gilder   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Microbial Endolithic Community at Meteor Crater

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Postimpact recovery and evolution in response to climate changes produced a modern ecosystem at Meteor Crater dominated by a grassland and woodland of piñon and juniper, which has been used to evaluate floral and megafaunal consequences of impact cratering during the Phanerozoic Eon of complex life.
David A. Kring, Charles S. Cockell
wiley   +1 more source