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most citedAsteroid (101955) Bennu in the Laboratory: Properties of the Sample Collected by OSIRIS-REx

10 citations · 21 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

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…

astro-ph.IM2024

Comparing NASA Discovery and New Frontiers Class Mission Concepts for the Io Volcano Observer (IVO)

Christopher W. Hamilton, Alfred S. McEwen, Laszlo Keszthelyi +31

Jupiter's moon Io is a highly compelling target for future exploration that offers critical insight into tidal dissipation processes and the geology of high heat flux worlds, inclu…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 10 cited

Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the Laboratory: Properties of the Sample Collected by OSIRIS-REx

Dante S. Lauretta, Harold C. Connolly, Joseph E. Aebersold +50

On 24 September 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission dropped a capsule to Earth containing approximately 120 g of pristine carbonaceous regolith from Bennu. We describe the delivery a…

astro-ph.EP2024

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…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 4 cited

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…

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

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…