Thermal inertia and surface roughness are proxies for the physical characteristics of
planetary surfaces. Global maps of these two properties distinguish the boulder population …

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

Asteroid shapes and hydration levels can serve as tracers of their history and origin. For
instance, the asteroids (162173) Ryugu and (101955) Bennu have an oblate spheroidal …

INTRODUCTION Carbonaceous asteroids formed early in Solar System history and
experienced varying degrees of aqueous (water-rock) and thermal alteration. Most models …

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 …

INTRODUCTION Owing to their low reflectance and spectral similarity to primitive
carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, C-complex asteroids are thought to contain carbon …

Abstract The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith
Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft mission characterized and collected a sample from …

The CM carbonaceous chondrite meteorites provide a record of low temperature (< 150° C)
aqueous reactions in the early solar system. A number of CM chondrites also experienced …

Basaltic V-type asteroids are common in the inner part of the Main Asteroid Belt and much
less abundant in the mid and outer parts. They are of scientific interest because they sample …

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 …