Bright carbonate veins on asteroid (101955) Bennu: Implications for aqueous alteration history
@article{Kaplan2020BrightCV, title={Bright carbonate veins on asteroid (101955) Bennu: Implications for aqueous alteration history}, author={Hannah H. Kaplan and Dante S. Lauretta and Amy A. Simon and Victoria E. Hamilton and Daniella N. DellaGiustina and Dathon R. Golish and Dennis C. Reuter and Carina A. Bennett and Keara N. Burke and Humberto Campins and Harold C. Connolly and Jason P. Dworkin and J. P. Emery and Daniel P. Glavin and Timothy D. Glotch and Romy D. Hanna and K Ishimaru and Erica R. Jawin and Timothy J. Mccoy and N. A. Porter and Scott A. Sandford and Salvatore M. Ferrone and Beth Ellen Clark and J.‐Y. Li and X.-D. Zou and Michael G. Daly and Olivier S. Barnouin and Jeffrey A. Seabrook and Heather L. Enos}, journal={Science}, year={2020}, volume={370} }
The complex history of Bennu's surface The near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu is a carbon-rich body with a rubble pile structure, formed from debris ejected by an impact on a larger parent asteroid. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is designed to collect a sample of Bennu's surface and return it to Earth. After arriving at Bennu, OSIRIS-REx performed a detailed survey of the asteroid and reconnaissance of…
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Widespread carbon-bearing materials on near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu
- Physics, GeologyScience
- 2020
The OSIRIS-REx results constrain Bennu's evolution and provide context for the sample collected in October 2020, as well as finding evidence for organic and carbonate materials that are widely distributed across the surface but are most concentrated on individual boulders.
Variations in color and reflectance on the surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu
- Geology, PhysicsScience
- 2020
Maps of color and albedo on asteroid Bennu indicate complex evolution of its surface due to space weathering, and constrain Bennu's evolution and provide context for the sample collected in October 2020.
Composition of organics on asteroid (101955) Bennu
- Physics, Geology
- 2021
Context. The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission detected an infrared absorption at 3.4 μm on near-Earth asteroid (101955)…
Evidence for limited compositional and particle size variation on asteroid (101955) Bennu from thermal infrared spectroscopy
- PhysicsAstronomy & Astrophysics
- 2021
Context. Asteroid (101955) Bennu is the target of NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission. The spacecraft’s instruments…
In search of Bennu analogs: Hapke modeling of meteorite mixtures
- Physics, GeologyAstronomy & Astrophysics
- 2021
Context. The OSIRIS-REx Visible and InfraRed Spectrometer onboard the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft obtained many spectra from…
Asteroid (101955) Bennu’s weak boulders and thermally anomalous equator
- Physics, GeologyScience Advances
- 2020
These findings imply that other C-complex NEAs likely have boulders similar to those on Bennu rather than finer-particulate regoliths, and a tentative correlation between albedo and thermal inertia of C- complex NEAs may be due to relative abundances of boulder types.
Geologic Context of the OSIRIS-REx Sample Site from High-resolution Topography and Imaging
- GeologyThe Planetary Science Journal
- 2022
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected a surface sample from Hokioi crater (55.8° N, 42.3° E; diameter ∼20 m) on the asteroid Bennu in 2020 October. We explore the geology of the sample collection site,…
Spacecraft sample collection and subsurface excavation of asteroid (101955) Bennu
- Geology, PhysicsScience
- 2022
Carbonaceous asteroids, such as (101955) Bennu, preserve material from the early Solar System, including volatile compounds and organic molecules. We report spacecraft imaging and spectral data…
Distant Formation and Differentiation of Outer Main Belt Asteroids and Carbonaceous Chondrite Parent Bodies
- Geology, PhysicsAGU Advances
- 2021
Volatile compositions of asteroids provide information on the Solar System history and the origins of Earth's volatiles. Visible to near‐infrared observations at wavelengths of <2.5 µm have suggested…
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