Advances in the discovery and characterization of asteroids over the past decade have
revealed an unanticipated underlying structure that points to a dramatic early history of the …

Asteroids formed in a dynamically quiescent disk but their orbits became gravitationally
stirred enough by Jupiter to lead to high-speed collisions. As a result, many dozen large …

Vesta and Ceres are the largest members of the asteroid belt, surviving from the earliest
phases of Solar System history. They formed at a time when the asteroid belt was much …

The Dawn mission has provided new evidence strengthening the identification of asteroid
Vesta as the parent body of the howardite, eucrite, and diogenite (HED) meteorites. The …

Vesta is a large differentiated rocky body in the main asteroid belt that accreted within the
first few million years after the formation of the earliest solar system solids. The Dawn …

Dawn's global mapping of Vesta reveals that its observed south polar depression is
composed of two overlapping giant impact features. These large basins provide exceptional …

Context. Basaltic V-type asteroids are leftovers from the formation and evolution of
differentiated planetesimals. They are thought to originate from mantles and crusts of …

Aims. The present paper aims to derive a new classification scheme for SDSS MOC asteroid
colors that is compatible with previous taxonomies based on spectroscopic data. The …

Basaltic V-type asteroids are common in the inner part of the Main Asteroid Belt and much
less abundant in the mid and outer parts. They are of scientific interest because they sample …

Aluminum-magnesium isotopic analysis of plagioclase in the eucrite Piplia Kalan, with
27Al/24Mg ratio between 2000 to 7000, reveals the presence of excess magnesium-26 …