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

669 citations · 956 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.EP2024★ 14 cited

Comparison of optical spectra between asteroids Ryugu and Bennu: II. High-precision analysis for space weathering trends

K. Yumoto, E. Tatsumi, T. Kouyama +25

The influence of space weathering on the observed spectra of C-complex asteroids remains uncertain. This has long hindered our understanding of their composition through telescope…

astro-ph.EP2023★ 5 cited

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…

astro-ph.EP2021★ 12 cited

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…

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…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 154 cited

OCAMS: The OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite

B. Rizk, C. Drouet d'Aubigny, D. Golish +52

The requirements-driven OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (OCAMS) acquires images essential to collecting a sample from the surface of Bennu. During proximity operations, these images docume…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 85 cited

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…

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…

astro-ph.EP2014★ 17 cited

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…