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Size Constraints for the Pre-atmospheric Parent Bodies of Ordinary Chondrites
Juan A. Sanchez, David C. Cantillo, Adam Battle +7
The study of S-complex near-Earth objects (NEOs), the parent bodies of ordinary chondrites, has shown that they are dominated by asteroids with LL chondrite-like compositions. This…
Analysis of Karin and Koronis2 asteroid families: new findings and challenges
David Vokrouhlický, David Nesvorný, William F. Bottke
We use our home catalog of the asteroid proper elements to study the Karin family. The hierarchical clustering method provides formal identification with 3,863 members, but this se…
Terrestrial Planet Formation from Two Source Reservoirs
David Nesvorny, Alessandro Morbidelli, William F. Bottke +2
This work describes new dynamical simulations of terrestrial planet formation. The simulations started at the protoplanetary disk stage, when planetesimals formed and accreted into…
Size-Frequency Distribution of Terrestrial Leftover Planetesimals and S-complex Implanted Asteroids
Rogerio Deienno, Andre Izidoro, David Nesvorny +3
The isotopic composition of meteorites linked to S-complex asteroids has been used to suggest that these asteroids originated in the terrestrial planet's region, i.e., within 1.5 a…
A pre-flyby view on the origin of asteroid Donaldjohanson, a target of the NASA Lucy mission
Simone Marchi, David Vokrouhlický, David Nesvorný +3
The NASA Lucy mission is scheduled to fly-by the main belt asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson on April 20, 2025. Donaldjohanson (DJ hereafter) is a member of the primitive (C-type cla…
Orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of Hilda population
David Vokrouhlický, David Nesvorný, Miroslav Brož +4
The Hilda population of asteroids is located in a large orbital zone of long-term stability associated with the Jupiter J3/2 mean motion resonance. They are a sister population of…
The Debiased Near-Earth Object Population from ATLAS Telescopes
Rogerio Deienno, Larry Denneau, David Nesvorný +7
This work is dedicated to debias the Near-Earth Objects (NEO) population based on observations from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescopes. We have ap…
Origin of Asteroid (101955) Bennu and its Connection to the New Polana Family
Driss Takir, Joshua P. Emery, William F. Bottke +1
The asteroid (142) Polana is classified as a B-type asteroid located in the inner Main Belt. This asteroid is the parent of the New Polana family, which has been proposed to be the…
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)…
NEOMOD 3: The Debiased Size Distribution of Near Earth Objects
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, Frank Shelly +9
Our previous model (NEOMOD2) for the orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of Near Earth Objects (NEOs) was calibrated on the Catalina Sky Survey observations between 2013 an…
The population of small near-Earth objects: composition, source regions and rotational properties
Juan A. Sanchez, Vishnu Reddy, Audrey Thirouin +7
The study of small (300 m) near-Earth objects (NEOs) is important because they are more closely related than larger objects to the precursors of meteorites that fall on Earth. C…
Accretion and Uneven Depletion of the Main Asteroid Belt
Rogerio Deienno, David Nesvorny, Matthew S. Clement +3
The main asteroid belt (MAB) is known to be primarily composed of objects from two distinct taxonomic classes, generically defined here as S- and C-complex. The former probably ori…
Orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of Jupiter Trojans
David Vokrouhlický, David Nesvorný, Miroslav Brož +4
Jupiter Trojans (JTs) librate about the Lagrangian stationary centers L4 and L5 associated with this planet on a typically small-eccentricity and moderate-inclination heliocentric…
NEOMOD 2: An Updated Model of Near-Earth Objects from a Decade of Catalina Sky Survey Observations
David Nesvorny, David Vokrouhlicky, Frank Shelly +9
Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) is a major survey of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). In a recent work, we used CSS observations from 2005-2012 to develop a new population model of NEOs (NEOMO…
Origin and Evolution of Jupiter's Trojan Asteroids
William F. Bottke, Raphael Marschall, David Nesvorný +1
The origin of the Jupiter Trojan asteroids has long been a mystery. Dynamically, the population, which is considerably smaller than the main asteroid belt, librates around Jupiter'…
A Crater Chronology for the Jupiter's Asteroids
S. Marchi, D. Nesvorný, D. Vokrouhlický +2
We present a new crater chronology for Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. This tool can be used to interpret the collisional history of the bodies observed by NASA's Lucy mission. The Luc…
The NEO Surveyor Near Earth Asteroid Known Object Model
Tommy Grav, Amy K. Mainzer, Joseph R. Masiero +4
The known near-Earth object (NEO) population consists of over 32,000 objects, with a yearly discovery rate of over 3000 NEOs per year. An essential component of the next generation…
Spectroscopic Links Among Giant Planet Irregular Satellites and Trojans
Benjamin N. L. Sharkey, Vishnu Reddy, Olga Kuhn +2
We collect near-infrared spectra () of four Jovian irregular satellites and visible spectra () of two Jovian irregular satellites, two Uranian…
Dynamical feasibility of (3) Juno as a parent body of the H chondrites
John W. Noonan, Kathryn Volk, David Nesvorný +1
We test the hypothesis that (3) Juno is a parent body of the H chondrites with dynamical modeling of an asteroid-family-forming impact and comparison to current observational data.…
Debiased population of very young asteroid families
David Vokrouhlický, David Nesvorný, Miroslav Brož +1
We use observations from the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) to determine the bias-corrected population of small members in four very young families down to sizes equivalent to several h…
Validation of the Survey Simulator tool for the NEO Surveyor mission using NEOWISE data
Joseph R. Masiero, Dar W. Dahlen, Amy K. Mainzer +4
The Near Earth Object Surveyor mission has a requirement to find two-thirds of the potentially hazardous asteroids larger than 140 meters in size. In order to determine the mission…
The Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission
A. K. Mainzer, Joseph R. Masiero, Paul A. Abell +34
The Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor mission is a NASA observatory designed to discover and characterize near-Earth asteroids and comets. The mission's primary objective is to find…
The Collisional Evolution of the Primordial Kuiper Belt, Its Destabilized Population, and the Trojan Asteroids
William Bottke, David Vokrouhlicky, Raphael Marshall +6
The tumultuous early era of outer solar system evolution culminated when Neptune migrated across the primordial Kuiper belt (PKB) and triggered a dynamical instability among the gi…
NEOMOD: A New Orbital Distribution Model for Near Earth Objects
David Nesvorny, Rogerio Deienno, William F. Bottke +10
Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are a transient population of small bodies with orbits near or in the terrestrial planet region. They represent a mid-stage in the dynamical cycle of aste…