Nondestructive analysis of Bennu samples toward comparative studies with Ryugu samplesOPEN ACCESS 

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Ryota Fukai, Masahiro Nishimura, Koki Yumoto, Yuichiro Cho, Yuta Shimizu, Moe Matsuoka, Eri Tatsumi, Soichiro Furukawa, Ryosuke Sakurai, Toru Yada, Kentaro Hatakeda, Kasumi Yogata, Yuma Enokido, Rui Tahara, Akiko Miyazaki, Seiya Kawasaki, Rei Kanemaru, Seiji…

Bennu and Ryugu constituents from samples IR analyses and potential source of terrestrial planets’ ingredientsOPEN ACCESS 

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C. Pilorget, T. Okada, J.-P. Bibring, D. Loizeau, K. Hatakeda, L. Nardelli, L. Riu, R. Sheppard, T. Jiang, M. Mahlke, R. Brunetto, D. Baklouti, R. Fukai, M. Abe, A. Aléon-Toppani, Y. Enokido, V. Hamm, S….

JAXA curation for Bennu samples returned by the NASA’s OSIRIS-REx missionOPEN ACCESS 

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Rui Tahara, Kentaro Hatakeda, Masahiro Nishimura, Kasumi Yogata, Ryota Fukai, Akiko Miyazaki, Toru Yada, Yuma Enokido, Masanao Abe, Seiya Kawasaki, Ryosuke Sakurai, Tatsuaki Okada, Cedric Pilorget, Jean-Pierre Bibring, Vincent Hamm, Lionel Lourit, Damien Loizeau, Lucie…

Magnesium phosphate in the Cold Bokkeveld (CM2) carbonaceous chondriteOPEN ACCESS 

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Martin R. Lee, Tobias Salge, Ian Maclaren MAPS, Version of Record online: 28 July 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Hydrous Mg-phosphate was first described from astromaterials in particles returned from the C-type asteroid Ryugu,…

Sample Return Missions: Rosetta Stones Returned from the First Small Bodies in the Solar SystemOPEN ACCESS 

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Tomoki Nakamura, Cecile Engrand, Michael Zolensky, Victoria E. Hamilton & Abigail A. Fraeman Space Science Reviews, Volume 221, article number 44, Published: 12 May 2025 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “It is now possible to…

An overview of the petrography and petrology of particles from aggregate sample from asteroid BennuOPEN ACCESS 

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Harold C. Connolly Jr, Dante S. Lauretta, Timothy J. McCoy, Sara S. Russell, Pierre Haenecour, Anjani Polit, Jessica J. Barnes, Thomas J. Zega, Hisayoshi Yurimoto, Noriyuki Kawasaki, Kevin Righter, Guy Libourel, Marc Portail, Vincent Guigoz,…

Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the Laboratory: Properties of the Sample Collected by OSIRIS-RExOPEN ACCESS 

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Dante S. Lauretta, Harold C. Connolly, Jr., Joseph E. Aebersold, Conel M. O. D. Alexander, Ronald-L. Ballouz, Jessica J. Barnes, Helena C. Bates, Carina A. Bennett, Laurinne Blanche, Erika H. Blumenfeld, Simon J. Clemett, George…

Thermal decomposition as the activity driver of near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon

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Eric MacLennan & Mikael Granvik Nature AstronomyPublished: 02 November 2023 LINK “Near-Earth asteroid (3200) Phaethon exhibits activity during its perihelion passage at 0.14 au from the Sun and is the likely parent body of the annual…

OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Plan — Revision 3.0OPEN ACCESS 

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Dante S. Lauretta, Harold C. Connolly Jr, Jeffrey N. Grossman, Anjani T. Polit, the OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Team PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived at…

Simulating impact-induced shaking as a triggering mechanism for mass movements on Bennu

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Y. Tang, D.S. Lauretta, R.-L. Ballouz, D.N. DellaGiustina, C.A. Bennett, K.J. Walsh, D.R. Golish IcarusAvailable online 6 February 2023 LINK “Observations of near-Earth asteroid Bennu have revealed a dynamic surface composed of unconsolidated material. The…

Crater population on asteroid (101955) Bennu indicates impact armouring and a young surface

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E. B. Bierhaus, D. Trang, R. T. Daly, C. A. Bennett, O. S. Barnouin, K. J. Walsh, R.-L. Ballouz, W. F. Bottke, K. N. Burke, M. E. Perry, E. R. Jawin, T. J. McCoy, H….

A Possible Explanation for the Blue Spectral Slope Observed on B-type AsteroidsOPEN ACCESS 

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Mark J. Loeffler, Beau S. Prince Accepted in Icarus on 6 January 2022 PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (13 January 2022): LINK In an effort to better understand the role dark material plays in the reflectance…

Spectrally blue hydrated parent body of asteroid (162173) RyuguOPEN ACCESS 

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Eri Tatsumi, Naoya Sakatani, Lucie Riu, Moe Matsuoka, Rie Honda, Tomokatsu Morota, Shingo Kameda, Tomoki Nakamura, Michael Zolensky, Rosario Brunetto, Takahiro Hiroi, Sho Sasaki, Sei’ichiro Watanabe, Satoshi Tanaka, Jun Takita, Cédric Pilorget, Julia de León,…

Widely distributed exogenic materials of varying compositions and morphologies on asteroid (101955) BennuOPEN ACCESS 

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Eri Tatsumi, Marcel Popescu, Humberto Campins, Julia de León, Juan Luis Rizos Carcía, Javier Licandro, Amy A. Simon, Hannah H. Kaplan, Daniella N. DellaGiustina, Dathon R. Golish, Dante S. Lauretta accepted manuscript for MNRAS PDF…

Hydrated Minerals on B-class Asteroids

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Rivkin A. S., Howell E. S., Emery J. P., Richardson M. 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (2021), Abstract #1945 PDF “B is for Bennu.” / Is that good enough for you? / Spectra disagree.”

Assessment of Cr isotopic heterogeneities of volatile-rich asteroids based on multiple planet formation modelsOPEN ACCESS 

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Ryota Fukai, Sota Arakawa accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal (Volume 908, Number 1) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) Update (15 February 2021): LINK “Describing the comprehensive evolutionary scenario for asteroids is key to explaining the…

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