4 papers
Physical Characteristics of the Asteroid (469219) Kamo'oalewa as a target of the Chinese Tianwen-2 mission
Xiaobin Wang, Karri Muinonen, Shenghong Gu +3
The Near-earth asteroid (469219) Kamo'oalewa, a quasi-satellite of the Earth, is going to be observed in site and sampled by the Chinese space mission Tianwen-2 in near future. Her…
Shape, regolith size and thickness, SMFe^0 content, and spectral type of Tianwen-2 target asteroid (469219) Kamo'oalewa
Pengfei Zhang, Guozheng Zhang, Yongxiong Zhang +13
China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft will return samples from the near-Earth asteroid (469219) Kamo'oalewa. We previously reported that Kamo'oalewa develops an LL-chondrite-compositional,…
Tianwen-2 target asteroid (469219) Kamo'oalewa probably develops an Itokawa-compositional but ultra-highly space-weathered surface
Pengfei Zhang, Guozheng Zhang, Zichen Wei +45
China's Tianwen-2 mission plans to return samples from a small, rapidly spinning Earth quasi-satellite (469219) Kamo'oalewa. Previous studies linked Kamo'oalewa to lunar compositio…
Photometric analysis of asteroids in the Phocaea region
Xiaoyun Xu, Xiaobing Wang, Karri Muinonen +7
The Phocaea asteroid family, one of the large ancient families located in the inner main belt, may be the sources of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) due to the nearby 3:1 mean motion r…