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OSIRIS-REx Returned a Pristine Sample of Asteroid Bennu: Takeaways from the Mission's Contamination Control and Knowledge Program
Jason P. Dworkin, Scott A. Sandford, Nicole G. Lunning +81
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission had the objective of delivering a pristine sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu to Earth for scientific analysis--where "pristine" signifies the absence of…
The steady state population of Earth's minimoons of lunar provenance
Robert Jedicke, Elisa Maria Alessi, Naja Wiedner +3
This work examines the plausibility of a lunar origin of natural objects that have a negative total energy (ET) with respect to the geocenter while within 3 Earth Hill radii (RH),…
A Contact Binary Satellite of the Asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh
Harold F. Levison, Simone Marchi, Keith S. Noll +3
Asteroids with diameters less than about 5 km have complex histories because they are small enough for radiative torques, YORP, to be a notable factor in their evolution. (152830)…
Internal rubble properties of asteroid (101955) Bennu
P. Tricarico, D. J. Scheeres, A. S. French +24
Exploration of asteroid (101955) Bennu by the OSIRIS-REx mission has provided an in-depth look at this rubble-pile near-Earth asteroid. In particular, the measured gravity field an…
The Global Surface Roughness of 25143 Itokawa
Hannah C. M. Susorney, Catherine L. Johnson, Olivier S. Barnouin +4
Surface roughness is an important metric in understanding how the geologic history of an asteroid affects its small-scale topography and it provides an additional means to quantita…
Impact Craters on Pluto and Charon Indicate a Deficit of Small Kuiper Belt Objects
K. N. Singer, W. B. McKinnon, B. Gladman +20
The flyby of Pluto and Charon by the New Horizons spacecraft provided high-resolution images of cratered surfaces embedded in the Kuiper belt, an extensive region of bodies orbitin…
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…
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…
The Role of Ejecta in the Small Crater Populations on the Mid-Sized Saturnian Satellites
Edward B. Bierhaus, Luke Dones, José Luis Alvarellos +1
We find evidence that crater ejecta play an important role in the small crater populations on the Saturnian satellites, and more broadly, on cratered surfaces throughout the Solar…