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OSIRIS-REx Operational Key Decision Points: A Retrospective
Rich Burns, Dante S. Lauretta
OSIRIS-REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, rendezvoused with the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2018 and delivered a 121.6-gram sample to Earth in 2023, the largest amo…
Properties of outer solar system pebbles during planetesimal formation from meteor observations
Peter Jenniskens, Paul R. Estrada, Stuart Pilorz +42
In the late stages of accretion leading up to the formation of planetesimals, particles grew to pebbles the size of 1-mm to tens of cm. That is the same size range that dominates t…
QRIS: A Quantitative Reflectance Imaging System for the Pristine Sample of Asteroid Bennu
Ruby E. Fulford, Dathon R. Golish, Dante S. Lauretta +12
The Quantitative Reflectance Imaging System (QRIS) is a laboratory-based spectral imaging system constructed to image the sample of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by the Origins…
OSIRIS-REx Sample Analysis Plan -- Revision 3.0
Dante S. Lauretta, Harold C. Connolly, Jeffrey N. Grossman +2
The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft arrived at its target, near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, in De…
Comparison of optical spectra between asteroids Ryugu and Bennu:I. Cross calibration between Hayabusa2/ONC-T and OSIRIS-REx/MapCam
K. Yumoto, E. Tatsumi, T. Kouyama +25
Asteroids (162173) Ryugu and (101955) Bennu observed by Hayabusa2 and OSIRIS-REx share many properties, but spectral observations by the telescopic Optical Navigation Camera (ONC-T…
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…
Alternative Sample Mass Measurement Technique for OSIRIS-REX Sample Collection Phase
Huikang Ma, Michael Skeen, Ryan Olds +2
The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is the third NASA New Frontiers Program mission and arrived at…
Widely distributed exogenic materials of varying compositions and morphologies on asteroid (101955) Bennu
Eri Tatsumi, Marcel Popescu, Humberto Campins +8
Using the multi-band imager MapCam onboard the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft, we identified 77 i…
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…
Characterization of Exogenic Boulders on Near-Earth Asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx Color Images
Lucille Le Corre, Vishnu Reddy, William F. Bottke +10
A small number of anomalously bright boulders on the near-Earth, rubble-pile asteroid (101955) Bennu were recently identified as eucritic material originating from asteroid (4) Ves…
Phase reddening on asteroid Bennu from visible and near-infrared spectroscopy
S. Fornasier, P. H. Hasselmann, J. D. P Deshapriya +10
The NASA mission OSIRIS-REx has been observing near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu in close proximity since December 2018. In this work, we investigate spectral phase reddening -- t…
Modeling optical roughness and first-order scattering processes from OSIRIS-REx color images of the rough surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu
Pedro H. Hasselmann, Sonia Fornasier, Maria A. Barucci +11
The dark asteroid (101955) Bennu studied by NASA\textquoteright s OSIRIS-REx mission has a boulder-rich and apparently dust-poor surface, providing a natural laboratory to investig…
Spin-driven evolution of asteroids' top-shapes at fast and slow spins seen from (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu
Masatoshi Hirabayashi, Ryota Nakano, Eri Tatsumi +14
Proximity observations by OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 provided clues on the shape evolution processes of the target asteroids, (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu. Their oblate shapes w…
Autonomous Detection of Particles and Tracks in Optical Images
Andrew J. Liounis, Jeffrey L. Small, Jason C. Swenson +12
During its initial orbital phase in early 2019, the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) asteroid sample return mi…
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…
Spectral clustering tools applied to Ceres in preparation for OSIRIS-REx color imaging of asteroid (101955) Bennu
Juan Luis Rizos, Julia de León, Javier Licandro +6
The OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample-return mission is investigating primitive near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu. Thousands of images will be acquired by the MapCam instrument onboard t…
Detection of Rotational Acceleration of Bennu using HST Lightcurve Observations
Michael C. Nolan, Ellen S. Howell, Daniel J. Scheeres +7
We observed the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu from the ground in 1999 and 2005, and with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2012, to constrain its rotation rate. The data reveal an…
Rotationally-Resolved Spectroscopic Characterization of near-Earth object (3200) Phaethon
Theodore Kareta, Vishnu Reddy, Carl Hergenrother +5
(3200) Phaethon is a compelling object as it has an asteroidal appearance and spectrum, produces a weak dust tail during perihelion at just 0.14 AU, and is the parent body of the G…
Overcoming the Challenges Associated with Image-based Mapping of Small Bodies in Preparation for the OSIRIS-REx Mission to (101955) Bennu
D. N. DellaGiustina, C. A. Bennett, K. Becker +38
The OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission is the third mission in NASA's New Frontiers Program and is the first U.S. mission to return samples from an asteroid to Earth. The mo…
Thermal Alteration of Labile Elements in Carbonaceous Chondrites
Alessondra Springmann, Dante S. Lauretta, Bjoern Klaue +4
Carbonaceous chondrite meteorites are some of the oldest Solar System planetary materials available for study. The CI group has bulk abundances of elements similar to those of the…
Expected spectral characteristics of (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, targets of the OSIRIS-REx and Hayabusa2 missions
J. de León, H. Campins, D. Morate +9
NASA's OSIRIS-REx and JAXA's Hayabusa2 sample-return missions are currently on their way to encounter primitive near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu and (162173) Ryugu, respectively…
Recovery of Bennu's Orientation for the OSIRIS-REx Mission: Implications for the Spin State Accuracy and Geolocation Errors
Erwan Mazarico, David D. Rowlands, Terence J. Sabaka +4
The goal of the OSIRIS-REx mission is to return a sample of asteroid material from Near-Earth Asteroid (101955) Bennu. The role of the navigation and flight dynamics team is critic…
The OSIRIS-REx Visible and InfraRed Spectrometer (OVIRS): Spectral Maps of the Asteroid Bennu
D. C. Reuter, A. A. Simon, J. Hair +19
The OSIRIS-REx Visible and Infrared Spectrometer (OVIRS) is a point spectrometer covering the spectral range of 0.4 to 4.3 microns (25,000-2300 cm-1). Its primary purpose is to map…
The Design Reference Asteroid for the OSIRIS-REx Mission Target (101955) Bennu
Carl W. Hergenrother, Maria Antonietta Barucci, Olivier Barnouin +23
The Design Reference Asteroid (DRA) is a compilation of all that is known about the OSIRIS-REx mission target, asteroid (101955) Bennu. It contains our best knowledge of the proper…