Bennu's near-Earth lifetime of 1.75 million years inferred from craters on its boulders

RL Ballouz, KJ Walsh, OS Barnouin, DN DellaGiustina… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
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 …

OSIRIS-APEX: an OSIRIS-REx extended mission to asteroid apophis

DN DellaGiustina, MC Nolan, AT Polit… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith
Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft mission characterized and collected a sample from …

Digital terrain mapping by the OSIRIS-REx mission

OS Barnouin, MG Daly, EE Palmer, CL Johnson… - Planetary and Space …, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security–Regolith
Explorer mission will return a sample to Earth from asteroid (101955) Bennu. Digital terrain …

Hemispherical differences in the shape and topography of asteroid (101955) Bennu

MG Daly, OS Barnouin, JA Seabrook, J Roberts… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
We investigate the shape of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu by constructing a high-
resolution (20 cm) global digital terrain model from laser altimeter data. By modeling the …

Assessing the sampleability of Bennu's surface for the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission

KJ Walsh, EB Bierhaus, DS Lauretta, MC Nolan… - Space Science …, 2022 - Springer
NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, OSIRIS-REx, collected a sample from the
surface of near-Earth asteroid Bennu in October 2020 and will deliver it to Earth in …

Inferring interiors and structural history of top-shaped asteroids from external properties of asteroid (101955) Bennu

Y Zhang, P Michel, OS Barnouin, JH Roberts… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Asteroid interiors play a key role in our understanding of asteroid formation and evolution.
As no direct interior probing has been done yet, characterisation of asteroids' interiors relies …

Stereophotoclinometry on the OSIRIS-REx Mission: Mathematics and methods

RW Gaskell, OS Barnouin, MG Daly… - The Planetary …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Stereophotoclinometry (SPC) makes it possible to extract the shapes of surfaces by
combining information from images, namely stereo parallax data and surface shading from …

Crater population on asteroid (101955) Bennu indicates impact armouring and a young surface

EB Bierhaus, D Trang, RT Daly, CA Bennett… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The impactor-to-crater size scaling relationships that enable estimates of planetary surface
ages rely on an accurate formulation of impactor–target physics. An armouring regime …

Autonomous navigation performance using natural feature tracking during the OSIRIS-REx Touch-And-Go sample collection event

CD Norman, CJ Miller, RD Olds, CE Mario… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract When the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–
Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft collected a sample of surface material from …

The use of digital terrain models for natural feature tracking at asteroid Bennu

RD Olds, CJ Miller, CD Norman, CE Mario… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith
Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission rendezvoused with asteroid (101955) Bennu in 2018 with …