[HTML][HTML] Overview of the search for signs of space weathering on the low-albedo asteroid (101955) Bennu

BE Clark, A Sen, XD Zou, DN Dellagiustina, S Sugita… - Icarus, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper summarizes the evidence for the optical effects of space weathering, as well as
the properties of the surface that control optical changes, on asteroid (101955) Bennu. First …

Thermally altered subsurface material of asteroid (162173) Ryugu

K Kitazato, RE Milliken, T Iwata, M Abe, M Ohtake… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Analyses of meteorites and theoretical models indicate that some carbonaceous near-Earth
asteroids may have been thermally altered due to radiative heating during close approaches …

Space weathering acts strongly on the uppermost surface of Ryugu

M Matsuoka, E Kagawa, K Amano… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Returned samples from Cb-type asteroid (162173) Ryugu exhibit very dark spectra in visible
and near-infrared ranges, generally consistent with the Hayabusa2 observations. A critical …

Hayabusa2 extended mission: New voyage to rendezvous with a small asteroid rotating with a short period

M Hirabayashi, Y Mimasu, N Sakatani… - Advances in Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Hayabusa2 is the Japanese Asteroid Return Mission and targeted the
carbonaceous asteroid Ryugu, conducted by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency …

Weak spectral features on (101995) Bennu from the OSIRIS-REx Visible and InfraRed Spectrometer

AA Simon, HH Kaplan, E Cloutis, VE Hamilton… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. The NASA Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-
Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has obtained thousands of spectra of asteroid …

Expected investigation of the (65803) Didymos–Dimorphos system using the RGB spectrophotometry data set from the LICIACube Unit Key Explorer (LUKE) wide …

G Poggiali, JR Brucato, PH Hasselmann… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids (LICIACube) is part of the NASA
Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the first mission aiming to demonstrate the …

Comparison of optical spectra between asteroids Ryugu and Bennu: II. High-precision analysis for space weathering trends

K Yumoto, E Tatsumi, T Kouyama, DR Golish, Y Cho… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
Various natural effects gradually alter the surfaces of asteroids exposed to the space
environment. These processes are collectively known as space weathering. The influence of …

OSIRIS-REx spectral analysis of (101955) Bennu by multivariate statistics

MA Barucci, PH Hasselmann, A Praet… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Contact. The NASA New Frontiers asteroid sample return mission Origins, Spectral
Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) has …

Bennu's global surface and two candidate sample sites characterized by spectral clustering of OSIRIS-REx multispectral images

JL Rizos, J de León, J Licandro, DR Golish, H Campins… - Icarus, 2021 - Elsevier
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft encountered the asteroid (101955) Bennu on December 3,
2018, and has since acquired extensive data from the payload of scientific instruments on …

Opposition observations of 162173 Ryugu: Normal albedo map highlights variations in regolith characteristics

Y Yokota, R Honda, E Tatsumi… - The Planetary …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract On 2019 January 8, the Telescopic Optical Navigation Camera (ONC-T) on board
the Hayabusa2 spacecraft observed the Cb-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu under near …