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Dark Primitive Asteroids Account for a Large Share of K/Pg-Scale Impacts on the Earth
David Nesvorny, William F. Bottke, Simone Marchi
A dynamical model for large near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is developed here to understand the occurrence rate and nature of Cretaceous-Paleogene (K/Pg) scale impacts on the Earth. We…
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…
Establishing Earth's Minimoon Population through Characterization of Asteroid 2020 CD
Grigori Fedorets, Marco Micheli, Robert Jedicke +20
We report on our detailed characterization of Earth's second known temporary natural satellite, or minimoon, asteroid 2020 CD3. An artificial origin can be ruled out based on its a…
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…
Debiased albedo distribution for Near Earth Objects
Alessandro Morbidelli, Marco Delbo, Mikael Granvik +5
We extend the most recent orbital and absolute magnitude Near Earth Object (NEO) model (Granvik et al., 2018) to provide a statistical description of NEO geometric albedos. Our mod…
Earth's Minimoons: Opportunities for Science and Technology
Robert Jedicke, Bryce T. Bolin, William F. Bottke +5
(modified from published version) Twelve years ago the Catalina Sky Survey discovered Earth's first known natural geocentric object other than the Moon, a few-meter diameter astero…