Asteroids smaller than 10 km are thought to be rubble piles formed from the reaccumulation
of fragments produced in the catastrophic disruption of parent bodies. Ground-based …

Spacecraft observations revealed that rocks on carbonaceous asteroids, which constitute
the most numerous class by composition, can develop millimeter-to-meter-scale fractures …

Small, kilometre-sized near-Earth asteroids are expected to have young and frequently
refreshed surfaces for two reasons: collisional disruptions are frequent in the main asteroid …

The bearing capacity-the ability of a surface to support applied loads-is an important
parameter for understanding and predicting the response of a surface. Previous work has …

INTRODUCTION The color and reflectance of asteroids can be used to infer their
compositions and histories. Variations in these spectrophotometric properties are driven by …

An asteroid's history is determined in large part by its strength against collisions with other
objects,(impact strength). Laboratory experiments on centimetre-scale meteorites have been …

Abstract In 2018, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2, arrived at the small asteroid Ryugu.
The surface of this C-type asteroid is covered with numerous boulders whose size and …

Images collected during NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission provide
the first resolved views of the Didymos binary asteroid system. These images reveal that the …

The exploration of near‐Earth asteroids has revealed dynamic surfaces characterized by
mobile, unconsolidated material that responds to local geophysical gradients, resulting in …

Rock breakdown due to diurnal thermal cycling has been hypothesized to drive boulder
degradation and regolith production on airless bodies. Numerous studies have invoked its …