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most citedOSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from Asteroid (101955) Bennu

669 citations

13 papers

q-bio.PE2026★ 3 cited

Broad presence of ferromagnetism in bees and relationship to phylogeny, natural history, and sociality

Laura Russo, Caleb Allen, Cameron S. Jorgensen +7

Scientists have long been fascinated by magnetoreception, the innate capacity of many animals to sense and use the Earth's magnetic field for navigation. In eusocial insects like h…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 13 cited

Chromium on Mercury: New results from the MESSENGER X-Ray Spectrometer and implications for the innermost planet's geochemical evolution

Larry R. Nittler, Asmaa Boujibar, Ellen Crapster-Pregont +6

Mercury, the innermost planet, formed under highly reduced conditions, based mainly on surface Fe, S, and Si abundances determined from MESSENGER mission data. The minor element Cr…

astro-ph.EP2022★ 23 cited

Dust from collisions: A way to probe the composition of exo-planets?

A. Morlok, A. B. Mason, M. Anand +3

In order to link infrared observations of dust formed during planet formation in debris disks to mid-infrared spectroscopic data of planetary materials from differentiated terrestr…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 7 cited

Calibration and Performance of the REgolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) Aboard NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission to Bennu

Jaesub Hong, Richard P. Binzel, Branden Allen +23

The REgolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) instrument on board NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to the asteroid Bennu is a Class-D student collaboration experiment designed to detect…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 15 cited

Spectral Evidence for Amorphous Silicates in Least-processed CO Meteorites and Their Parent Bodies

Margaret M. McAdam, Jessica M. Sunshine, Kieren T. Howard +3

Least-processed carbonaceous chondrites (carbonaceous chondrites that have experienced minimal aqueous alteration and thermal metamorphism) are characterized by their predominately…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 669 cited

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…