Spectral characterization of the craters of Ryugu as observed by the NIRS3 instrument on-board Hayabusa2
L. Riu, C. Pilorget, R. Milliken, K. Kitazato, T. Nakamura, Y. Cho, M. Matsuoka, S. Sugita, M. Abe, S. Matsuura, M. Ohtake, S. Kameda, N. Sakatani, E. Tatsumi, Y. Yokota, T. Iwata IcarusIn Press, Journal…
Thermal emission measurements of ordinary chondrite mineral analogs in a simulated asteroid environment: 2. Representative mineral mixtures
Michael S. Bramble, Ralph E. Milliken, William R. Patterson IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 8 December 2020 LINK “Highlights • The thermal emission of mineral mixtures was analyzed in a simulated asteroid environment.• The…
Phase reddening on asteroid Bennu from visible and near-infrared spectroscopyOPEN ACCESS
S. Fornasier, P. H. Hasselmann, J. D. P Deshapriya, M. A. Barucci, B. E. Clark, A. Praet, V. E. Hamilton, A. Simon, J-Y. Li, E. A. Cloutis, F. Merlin, X-D. Zou, D. S. Lauretta Astronomy…
Photometry of asteroid (101955) Bennu with OVIRS on OSIRIS-REx
Xiao-Duan Zou, Jian-Yang Li, Beth E. Clark, Dathon R. Golish, Salvatore Ferrone, Amy A. Simon, Dennis C. Reuter, Deborah L. Domingue, Hannah Kaplan, Maria Antonietta Barucci, Sonia Fornasiere, Alice Praet, Pedro Henrique Hasselmann, Carina Bennett,…
Network of thermal cracks in meteorites due to temperature variations: new experimental evidence and implications for asteroid surfaces
Guy Libourel, Clément Ganino, Marco Delbo, Mathieu Niezgoda, Benjamin Remy, Lionel Aranda, Patrick Michel Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society,Published: 22 October 2020 LINK “In recent years several studies have shown the importance of…
Widespread carbon-bearing materials on near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu
Amy A. Simon, Hannah H. Kaplan, Victoria E. Hamilton, Dante S. Lauretta, Humberto Campins, Joshua P. Emery, M. Antonietta Barucci, Daniella N. DellaGiustina, Dennis C. Reuter, Scott A. Sandford, Dathon R. Golish, Lucy F. Lim,…
Variations in color and reflectance on the surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu
D. N. DellaGiustina, K. N. Burke, K. J. Walsh, P. H. Smith, D. R. Golish, E. B. Bierhaus, R.-L. Ballouz, T. L. Becker, H. Campins, E. Tatsumi, K. Yumoto, S. Sugita, J. D. Prasanna Deshapriya,…
Visible and near-infrared reflectance of hyperfine and Hyperporous particulate surfaces
R. Sultana, O. Poch, P. Beck, B. Schmitt, E. Quiricoa IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 5 October 2020 LINK “Highlights • A protocol for production of sub-μm grains in hyperporous surfaces was developed• Reflectance…
“Water” abundance at the surface of C-complex main-belt asteroidsOPEN ACCESS
Pierre Beck, Jolantha Eschrig, Sandra Potin, Trygve Prestgard, Lydie Bonal, Eric Quirico, Bernard Schmitt IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 1 October 2020 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • Quantification of equivalent water in CC…
Impact Experiment on Asteroid (162173) Ryugu: Structure beneath the Impact Point Revealed by In Situ Observations of the Ejecta Curtain
Toshihiko Kadono, Masahiko Arakawa, Rie Honda, Ko Ishibashi, Kazunori Ogawa, Naoya Sakatani, Hirotaka Sawada, Yuri Shimaki, Kei Shirai, Seiji Sugita, and Koji Wada The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 899, Number 1 LINK “An impact experiment…
Spectral reflectance analysis of type 3 carbonaceous chondrites and search for their asteroidal parent bodies
J. Eschrig, L. Bonal, P. Beck, T.J. Prestgard IcarusIn Press, Journal Pre-proof, Available online 7 August 2020 LINK “Non-differentiated asteroids are among the most primitive objects in our Solar System, having escaped intense heating mechanisms….
Global photometric properties of (162173) RyuguOPEN ACCESS
E. Tatsumi, D. Domingue, S. Schröder, Y. Yokota, D. Kuroda, M. Ishiguro, S. Hasegawa, T. Hiroi, R. Honda, R. Hemmi, L. Le Corre, N. Sakatani, T. Morota, M. Yamada, S. Kameda, T. Koyama, H. Suzuki,…
In situ evidence of thermally induced rock breakdown widespread on Bennu’s surfaceOPEN ACCESS
J. L. Molaro, K. J. Walsh, E. R. Jawin, R.-L. Ballouz, C. A. Bennett, D. N. DellaGiustina, D. R. Golish, C. Drouet d’Aubigny, B. Rizk, S. R. Schwartz, R. D. Hanna, S. J. Martel, M….
Sample collection from asteroid (162173) Ryugu by Hayabusa2: Implications for surface evolution
T. Morota, S. Sugita, Y. Cho, M. Kanamaru, E. Tatsumi, N. Sakatani, R. Honda, N. Hirata, H. Kikuchi, M. Yamada, Y. Yokota, S. Kameda, M. Matsuoka, H. Sawada, C. Honda, T. Kouyama, K. Ogawa, H….
Disk-resolved photometric modeling and properties of asteroid (101955) BennuOPEN ACCESS
D.R. Golish, D.N. DellaGiustina, J.-Y. Li, B.E. Clark, X.-D.Zoub, P.H.Smith, J.L.Rizos, P.H. Hasselmann, C.A.Bennett, S.Fornasier, R.-L.Ballouz, C. Drouet d’Aubigny, B.Rizk, M.G.Daly, O.S. Barnouin, L.Philpott, M.M.Al Asad, J.A.Seabrook, D.S.Laurett Icarus LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “Highlights • The…
Images from the surface of asteroid Ryugu show rocks similar to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites
R. Jaumann, N. Schmitz, T.-M. Ho, S. E. Schröder, K. A. Otto, K. Stephan, S. Elgner, K. Krohn, F. Preusker, F. Scholten, J. Biele, S. Ulamec, C. Krause, S. Sugita, K.-D. Matz, T. Roatsch, R….
Hyperspectral FTIR imaging of irradiated carbonaceous meteorites
R. Brunetto, C. Lantz, Z. Dionnet, F. Borondics, A. Aléon-Toppani, D. Baklouti, M.A. Barucci, R.P. Binzel, Z. Djouadi, K. Kitazato, C. Pilorget Planetary and Space Science Available online 8 May 2018 LINK “Highlights • We…
Reflectance spectra of synthetic Fe-free ortho- and clinoenstatites in the UV/VIS/IR and implications for remote sensing detection of Fe-free pyroxenes on planetary surfaces
Kathrin Markus, Lyuba Moroz, Gabriele Arnold, Daniela Henckel, Harald Hiesinger, Arno Rohrbach, Klemme Stephan Planetary and Space Science Available online 11 April 2018 LINK “Highlights • Even extremely Fe-poor pyroxenes show deep ultraviolet absorption bands….
Ion irradiation of carbonaceous chondrites: a new view of space weathering on primitive asteroids
C. Lantz, R. Brunetto, M.A. Barucci, S. Fornasier, D. Baklouti, J. Bourçois, M. Godard Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 16 December 2016 LINK “Highlights • New ion irradiations on several carbonaceous chondrites to…
Survival of the impactor during hypervelocity collisions II: An analogue for high porosity targets.OPEN ACCESS
C. Avdellidou, M.C. Price, M. Delbo, and M.J. Cole MNRAS doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2381 First published online September 16, 2016 LINK PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We investigated how a target’s porosity affects the outcome of a collision, with respect…
Secondary submicrometer impact cratering on the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa
Dennis Harries, Shogo Yakame, Yuzuru Karouji, Masayuki Uesugi, Falko Langenhorst Earth and Planetary Science Letters, Volume 450, 15 September 2016, Pages 337-345 Available online 12 July 2016 LINK “Highlights • Submicrometer impact craters on RA-QD02-0265…
A note on cement in asteroids
G. Bilalbegovic accepted for publications in Icarus PDF (open access) abstract “Cement mineral tobermorite was formed in hydrothermal experiments on alternation of calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions (CAIs) in carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Unidentified bands at 14 microns were…
New reflectance spectra of 40 asteroids: A comparison with the previous results and an interpretation
V. V. Busarev Solar System Research January 2016, Volume 50, Issue 1, pp 13-23 First online: 22 January 2016 (Original Russian Text © V.V. Busarev, 2016, published in Astronomicheskii Vestnik, 2016, Vol. 50, No. 1,…
Effects of viewing geometry, aggregation state, and particle size on reflectance spectra of the Murchison CM2 chondrite deconvolved to Dawn FC band passes
Matthew R.M. Izawa, Tanja Schäfer, Valerie B. Pietrasz, Edward A. Cloutis, Paul Mann, Andreas Nathues, Kurt Mengel, Michael Schäfer, Guneshwar Thangjam, Martin Hoffmann, Kimberly T. Tait, Daniel M. Applin Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available…
Simulating the Formation of Carbon-rich Molecules on an idealised Graphitic Surface
David W. Marshall, H. R. Sadeghpour the manuscript has been submitted to MNRAS for publication PDF (full text) abstract “There is accumulating evidence for the presence of complex molecules, including carbon-bearing and organic molecules, in…
Ejecta velocity distribution of impact craters formed on quartz sand: Effect of projectile density on crater scaling law
Sayaka Tsujido, Masahiko Arakawa, Ayako I. Suzuki, Minami Yasui Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 2 September 2015 LINK
Reflectance properties and hydrated material distribution on Vesta: Global investigation of variations and their relationship using improved calibration of Dawn VIR mapping spectrometer
Jean-Philippe Combe, Eleonora Ammannito, Federico Tosi, Maria Cristina de Sanctis, Thomas B. McCord, Carol A. Raymond, Christopher T. Russell Icarus In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 12 August 2015 LINK
