Without a protective atmosphere, space-exposed surfaces of airless Solar System bodies
gradually experience an alteration in composition, structure and optical properties through a …

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 …

Meteor plasmas and impact events are complex, dynamic natural phenomena. Simulating
these processes in the laboratory is, however, a challenge. The technique of laser induced …

Solar System small bodies were the first objects to accrete inside the protoplanetary disk,
giving insights into its composition and structure. The P-/D-type asteroids are particularly …

Returned samples from Cb-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu exhibit very dark spectra in visible
and near-infrared ranges, generally consistent with the Hayabusa2 observations. A critical …

Ryugu is a carbonaceous rubble-pile asteroid visited by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. Small
rubble pile asteroids record the thermal evolution of their much larger parent bodies …

We performed H+ and He+ irradiation experiments on slabs of the Murchison CM2 meteorite
to simulate solar wind irradiation of carbonaceous asteroids. Two separate 6 mm× 6 mm …

We performed pulsed laser irradiation to simulate the progressive space weathering of three
individual chips of the CM2 Murchison meteorite. After irradiation, we performed two-step …

Context. Space weathering is a process that changes the surface of airless planetary bodies.
Prime space weathering agents are solar wind irradiation and micrometeoroid …

The asteroid (142) Polana is classified as a B-type asteroid located in the inner Main Belt.
This asteroid is the parent of the New Polana family, which has been proposed to be the …