• DOI:10.1093/mnrasl/sly156
Corpus ID: 119226483

Unusual polarimetric properties of (101955) Bennu: similarities with F-class asteroids and cometary bodies

@article{Cellino2018UnusualPP,
  title={Unusual polarimetric properties of (101955) Bennu: similarities with F-class asteroids and cometary bodies},
  author={A. Cellino and S. Bagnulo and I. Belskaya and A. Christou},
  journal={arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics},
  year={2018}
}

A. Cellino, S. Bagnulo, +1 author A. Christou

Published 2018

Physics

arXiv: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics

We have obtained polarimetric measurements of asteroid (101955) Bennu, a presumably primitive near-Earth object (NEO) that is the target of NASA's sample return mission OSIRIS-REx. During our observing campaign, Bennu was visible from Earth under a wide range of illumination conditions, with phase-angle in the range 16 to 57 degrees. Together with (3200) Phaethon and (152679) 1998 KU2, observed very recently, Bennu is the only existing example of a primitive NEO observed in polarimetric mode… CONTINUE READING

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