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    Exogenic basalt on asteroid (101955) Bennu

    When rubble-pile asteroid 2008 TC3 impacted Earth on 7 October 2008, the recovered rock fragments indicated that such asteroids can contain exogenic material1,2. However, spacecraft missions to date have only obs...

    D. N. DellaGiustina, H. H. Kaplan, A. A. Simon, W. F. Bottke… in Nature Astronomy (2021)

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    Collisional history of Ryugu’s parent body from bright surface boulders

    The asteroid (162173) Ryugu and other rubble-pile asteroids are likely re-accumulated fragments of much larger parent bodies that were disrupted by impacts. However, the collisional and orbital pathways from t...

    E. Tatsumi, C. Sugimoto, L. Riu, S. Sugita, T. Nakamura, T. Hiroi… in Nature Astronomy (2021)

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    Properties of rubble-pile asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx imaging and thermal analysis

    Establishing the abundance and physical properties of regolith and boulders on asteroids is crucial for understanding the formation and degradation mechanisms at work on their surfaces. Using images and therma...

    D. N. DellaGiustina, J. P. Emery, D. R. Golish, B. Rozitis… in Nature Astronomy (2019)

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    Dust Activity in Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko from February 20 to April 20, 2003

    Broadband imaging of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko has provided more data on the characterisation of the target of the ESA Rosetta Mission. The comet monitoring between r h=2.37 and r ...

    L. M. Lara, J. de León, J. Licandro, P. J. Gutiérrez in Earth, Moon, and Planets (2005)

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