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Olivine-dominated asteroids: Mineralogy and origin
Juan A. Sanchez, Vishnu Reddy, Michael S. Kelley +8
Olivine-dominated asteroids are a rare type of objects formed either in nebular processes or through magmatic differentiation. The analysis of meteorite samples suggest that at lea…
NEOKepler: Discovering Near-Earth Objects Using the Kepler Spacecraft
Kevin B. Stevenson, Daniel Fabrycky, Robert Jedicke +2
We propose a new Kepler mission, called NEOKepler, that would survey near Earth's orbit to identify potentially hazardous objects (PHOs). To understand its surveying power, Kepler'…
Small crater populations on Vesta
S. Marchi, W. F. Bottke, D. P. O'Brien +7
The NASA Dawn mission has extensively examined the surface of asteroid Vesta, the second most massive body in the main belt. The high quality of the gathered data provides us with…
Introducing the Eulalia and new Polana asteroid families: re-assessing primitive asteroid families in the inner Main Belt
Kevin J. Walsh, Marco Delbó, William F. Bottke +2
The so-called Nysa-Polana complex of asteroids is a diverse and widespread group. It appears to be two overlapping families of different asteroid taxonomies: (44) Nysa is an E-type…
Constraining the cometary flux through the asteroid belt during the late heavy bombardment
M. Brož, A. Morbidelli, W. F. Bottke +3
In the Nice model, the late heavy bombardment (LHB) is related to an orbital instability of giant planets which causes a fast dynamical dispersion of a transneptunian cometary disk…