JWST sighting of decameter main-belt asteroids and view on meteorite sources
Artem Y. Burdanov, Julien de Wit, Miroslav Brož, Thomas G. Müller, Tobias Hoffmann, Marin Ferrais, Marco Micheli, Emmanuel Jehin, Daniel Parrott, Samantha N. Hasler, Richard P. Binzel, Elsa Ducrot, Laura Kreidberg, Michaël Gillon, Thomas P….
Source regions of carbonaceous meteorites and NEOsOPEN ACCESS
M. Brož, P. Vernazza, M. Marsset, R.P. Binzel, F. DeMeo, M. Birlan, Ch. Avdellidou, F. Colas, S. Anghel, S. Bouley, C. Blanpain, J. Gattacceca, S. Jeanne, L. Jorda, J. Lecubin, A. Malgoyre, A. Steinhausser, J….
Young asteroid families as the primary source of meteoritesOPEN ACCESS
M. Brož, P. Vernazza, M. Marsset, F.E. DeMeo, R.P. Binzel, D. Vokrouhlický, D. Nesvorný PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (16 October 2024): Nature, Volume 634, pages 566–571 LINK “Understanding the origin of bright shooting stars and…
Gaia view of primitive inner-belt asteroid families: Searching for the origins of asteroids Bennu and RyuguOPEN ACCESS
Marco Delbo, Chrysa Avdellidou, Kevin J. Walsh Accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Near-Earth asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, were visited, characterised, and sampled by the Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx missions: remote sensing…
Spectroscopic Characterization of the Gefion Asteroid Family: Implications for L-chondrite
Allison M McGraw, Vishnu Reddy, Juan A Sanchez Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stac2075Published: 03 August 2022 LINK “Asteroid families are cosmic puzzles that help us understand the true nature of their original…
Asteroid families: properties, recent advances, and future opportunitiesOPEN ACCESS
Bojan Novaković, David Vokrouhlický, Federica Spoto & David Nesvorný Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy, Volume 134, Article number: 34Published: 22 July 2022 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Collisions are one of the key processes shaping…
Asteroid break-ups and meteorite delivery to Earth the past 500 million yearsOPEN ACCESS
Fredrik Terfelt and Birger Schmitz PNAS June 15, 2021 118 (24) LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Supplementary Information “The meteoritic material falling on Earth is believed to derive from large break-up or cratering events in…
Dynamical evolution of the inner asteroid belt
Stanley F Dermott, Dan Li, Apostolos A Christou, Thomas J J Kehoe, Carl D Murray, J Malcolm Robinson Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical SocietyPublished: 17 May 2021 LINK “A determination of the dynamical evolution…
Do L chondrites Come From the Gefion Family?OPEN ACCESS
Allison M McGraw, Vishnu Reddy, Juan A Sanchez Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, sty250, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty250 Published: 31 January 2018 LINK Update (30 April 2018): PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Ordinary chondrites (H, L and LL…
Identification of a primordial asteroid family constrains the original planetesimal population
Marco Delbo, Kevin Walsh, Bryce Bolin, Chrysa Avdellidou, Alessandro Morbidelli Science 08 Sep 2017: Vol. 357, Issue 6355, pp. 1026-1029 DOI: 10.1126/science.aam6036 LINK “A quarter of known asteroids is associated with more than 100 distinct…
Footprints of a possible Ceres asteroid paleo-family
V. Carruba, D. Nesvorný, S. Marchi, S. Aljbaae Accepted for publication in MNRAS PDF (open access) abstract “Ceres is the largest and most massive body in the asteroid main belt. Observational data from the Dawn…
Spectral variability on primitive asteroids of the Themis and Beagle families: space weathering effects or parent body heterogeneity? (updated: Jan. 21)
S. Fornasier, C. Lantz, D. Perna, H. Campins, M.A. Barucci, D. Nesvorny Icarus Available online 15 January 2016 Last update (21 January 2016): PDF (open access) LINK “Themis is an old and statistically robust asteroid…
Asteroid family ages
Federica Spoto, Andrea Milani, Zoran Knežević Icarus, available online 13 May 2015 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2015.04.041 LINK