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 Stefano Bagnulo and Irina Belskaya and Apostolos A. Christou}, journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters}, year={2018} }
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…
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