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astro-ph.IM2017
OSIRIS-REx Contamination Control Strategy and Implementation
J. P. Dworkin, L. A. Adelman, T. Ajluni +59
OSIRIS-REx will return pristine samples of carbonaceous asteroid Bennu. This article describes how pristine was defined based on expectations of Bennu and on a realistic understand…
astro-ph.EP2017
OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from Asteroid (101955) Bennu
D. S. Lauretta, S. S. Balram-Knutson, E. Beshore +45
In May of 2011, NASA selected the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) asteroid sample return mission as the third…
astro-ph.EP2026
Physical Analysis of Bennu Samples Reveals Regolith Production by Collisional Disruption on Near-Earth Asteroids
R. -L. Ballouz, A. J. Ryan, R. J. Macke +25
Owing to the extremely low gravity of small near-Earth asteroids (NEAs), it has been assumed that impact-generated rock fragments escape into space and thus do not contribute to th…