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The Compositional Structure of the Asteroid Belt

, 2015
The past decade has brought major improvements in large-scale asteroid discovery and characterization with over half a million known asteroids and over 100,000 with some measurement of physical characterization.
Alexander, Conel M. O'D., Binzel, Richard P., Chapman, Clark R., DeMeo, Francesca E., Walsh, Kevin J.   +4 more
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The Hermean Helium Exosphere—Continuous and Sporadic Helium Release Processes

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 130, Issue 4, April 2025.
Abstract Since its detection by Mariner 10, helium has been a key focus in studies of Mercury's exosphere. Recently, Weichbold et al. (2025), https://doi.org/10.1029/2024je008679 provided the first in situ helium measurements, inferring density from Ion Cyclotron Wave (ICW) events observed by the MESSENGER spacecraft.
J. Hener, P. Wurz, F. Weichbold, H. Lammer, D. Schmid, A. Vorburger   +5 more
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Breakup of a long-period comet as the origin of the dinosaur extinction

Scientific Reports, 2021
The origin of the Chicxulub impactor, which is attributed as the cause of the K/T mass extinction event, is an unsolved puzzle. The background impact rates of main-belt asteroids and long-period comets have been previously dismissed as being too low to ...
Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb
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Magnetization of Iron Meteorites up to the Meter in Size as Possible Analogs for Asteroid Psyche

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 130, Issue 4, April 2025.
Abstract Meteorite paleomagnetic studies indicate planetesimal generated magnetic fields, but spacecraft magnetic measurements have yet to identify asteroidal natural remanent magnetization (NRM). This apparent discrepancy is of particular interest in the context of the NASA Psyche mission, which will search for evidence of past magnetic activity of ...
Clara Maurel, Elise Clavé, Jérôme Gattacecca, Minoru Uehara, Elias N. Mansbach, Timothy J. McCoy, Benjamin P. Weiss   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of asteroid, meteor, and meteorite‐type links

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 60, Issue 4, Page 928-973, April 2025.
Abstract With the goal to determine the origin of our meteorites in the asteroid belt, video and photographic observations of meteors have now tracked 75 meteorite falls. Six years ago, there were just hints that different meteorite types arrived on different orbits, but now, the number of orbits (N) is high enough for distinct patterns to emerge.
Peter Jenniskens, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ceres: Organic‐Rich Sites of Exogenic Origin?

AGU Advances, Volume 6, Issue 1, February 2025.
Abstract Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, is the only potential ocean world in the inner Solar System. Previous studies identified deposits of aliphatic organics in and around the Ernutet crater, and at small locations at Inamahari and Urvara craters. The origin of organics, either endogenic or exogenic, in these fresh exposures is still
R. Sarkar, A. Nathues, M. Hoffmann, E. Cloutis, K. Mengel, P. Singh, G. Thangjam, J. Hernandez, S. Karunatillake, M. Coutelier   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Main Belt Asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE: Near-Infrared Albedos [PDF]

, 2014
We present revised near-infrared albedo fits of 2835 Main Belt asteroids observed by WISE/NEOWISE over the course of its fully cryogenic survey in 2010.
Bauer, J. M., Grav, T., Mainzer, A. K., Masiero, Joseph R., Nugent, C. R., Sonnett, S., Stevenson, R.   +6 more
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Detection of Hydration on Nominally Anhydrous S-complex Main Belt Asteroids

The Planetary Science Journal
We present the results of a survey of nominally anhydrous main belt S-complex asteroids. Thirty-three observations of 29 unique asteroids were obtained using the IRTF+SpeX instrument in prism and LXD short modes.
Maggie McAdam, Cristina Thomas, Lauren McGraw, Andrew Rivkin, Joshua Emery   +4 more
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Evidence for Magnetically‐Driven Accretion in the Distal Solar System

AGU Advances, Volume 5, Issue 6, December 2024.
Abstract Paleomagnetic measurements of meteorites indicate that magnetic fields existed in the inner solar nebula capable of driving accretion at rates similar to those observed for young stellar objects with protoplanetary disks. However, the field strength in the solar system beyond ∼7 astronomical units (AU) and its role in accretion remain poorly ...
Elias N. Mansbach, Benjamin P. Weiss, Eduardo A. Lima, Michael Sowell, Joseph L. Kirschvink, Roger R. Fu, Saverio Cambioni, Xue‐Ning Bai, Jodie B. Ream, Chisato Anai, Atsuko Kobayashi, Hironori Hidaka   +11 more
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Insights on the Rotational State and Shape of Asteroid (203) Pompeja from TESS Photometry

The Planetary Science Journal
The Main Belt asteroid (203) Pompeja shows evidence of extreme variability in visible and near-infrared spectral slope with time. The observed spectral variability has been hypothesized to be attributed to spatial variations across Pompeja’s surface.
Oriel A. Humes, Josef Hanuš
doaj   +1 more source