[HTML][HTML] Overview of the search for signs of space weathering on the low-albedo asteroid (101955) Bennu

BE Clark, A Sen, XD Zou, DN Dellagiustina, S Sugita… - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper summarizes the evidence for the optical effects of space weathering, as well as
the properties of the surface that control optical changes, on asteroid (101955) Bennu. First …

Comparison of optical spectra between asteroids Ryugu and Bennu: II. High-precision analysis for space weathering trends

K Yumoto, E Tatsumi, T Kouyama, DR Golish, Y Cho… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Various natural effects gradually alter the surfaces of asteroids exposed to the space
environment. These processes are collectively known as space weathering. The influence of …

The nature of low-albedo small bodies from 3 μm spectroscopy: one group that formed within the ammonia snow line and one that formed beyond It

AS Rivkin, JP Emery, ES Howell, T Kareta… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present evidence, via a large survey of 191 new spectra along with previously published
spectra, of a divide in the 3 μm spectral properties of the low-albedo asteroid population …

Hydrogen abundance estimation and distribution on (101955) Bennu

A Praet, MA Barucci, BE Clark, HH Kaplan, AA Simon… - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
Asteroids were likely a major source of volatiles and water to early Earth. Quantifying the
hydration of asteroids is necessary to constrain models of the formation and evolution of the …

Weak spectral features on (101995) Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx Visible and InfraRed Spectrometer

AA Simon, HH Kaplan, E Cloutis, VE Hamilton… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The NASA Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-
Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has obtained thousands of spectra of asteroid …

Phase reddening on asteroid Bennu from visible and near-infrared spectroscopy

S Fornasier, PH Hasselmann, JDP Deshapriya… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The NASA mission OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource
Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer) has been observing near-Earth asteroid …

GRO 95577 (CR1) as a mineralogical analogue for asteroid (101955) Bennu

VE Hamilton, HH Kaplan, HC Connolly Jr, CA Goodrich… - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
Orbital spectra of asteroid (101955) Bennu collected by NASA's Origins, Spectral
Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security–Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS–REx) spacecraft …

Expected investigation of the (65803) Didymos–Dimorphos system using the RGB spectrophotometry data set from the LICIACube Unit Key Explorer (LUKE) wide …

G Poggiali, JR Brucato, PH Hasselmann… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) is part of the NASA
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first mission aiming to demonstrate the …

Candidate Main-belt Asteroids for Surface Heterogeneity

S Hasegawa, M Marsset, FE DeMeo… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Large terrestrial bodies in our solar system like the Earth, Mars, Mercury, and the Moon
exhibit geologically complex surfaces with compositional heterogeneity. From past studies …

OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Plan--Revision 3.0

DS Lauretta, HC Connolly Jr, JN Grossman… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security Regolith Explorer
(OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived at its target, near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, in …