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20172026
most citedOSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from Asteroid (101955) Bennu

669 citations · 891 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.EP2026

Quantifying Surface Heterogeneity Across Asteroid (101955) Bennu using Candidate Site Remote Sensing Data

Emma-Catherine Belhadfa, Neil E. Bowles, Katherine A. Shirley +3

The OSIRIS-REx mission acquired spatially resolved (2-10 m spot sizes) visible-near infrared (VNIR) and thermal infrared (TIR) spectra across four candidate sampling sites on aster…

astro-ph.EP2024★ 41 cited

A Contact Binary Satellite of the Asteroid (152830) Dinkinesh

Harold F. Levison, Simone Marchi, Keith S. Noll +3

Asteroids with diameters less than about 5 km have complex histories because they are small enough for radiative torques, YORP, to be a notable factor in their evolution. (152830)…

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.EP2017★ 52 cited

The Thermophysical Properties of the Bagnold Dunes, Mars: Ground-truthing Orbital Data

Christopher S. Edwards, Sylvain Piqueux, Victoria E. Hamilton +7

In this work, we compare the thermophysical properties and particle sizes derived from the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover's Ground Temperature Sensor (GTS) of the Bagnold dune…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 119 cited

The OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) Instrument

P. R. Christensen, V. E. Hamilton, G. L. Mehall +19

The OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer (OTES) will provide remote measurements of mineralogy and thermophysical properties of Bennu to map its surface, help select the OSIRIS…

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…