Meteorites provide vast amounts of information on the make up and history of the solar
system. Physical properties are a critical component to provide this information. This is a …

The Dawn spacecraft targeted 4 Vesta, believed to be a remnant intact protoplanet from the
earliest epoch of solar system formation, based on analyses of howardite-eucrite-diogenite …

We present revised near-infrared albedo fits of 2835 main-belt asteroids observed by
WISE/NEOWISE over the course of its fully cryogenic survey in 2010. These fits are derived …

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 …

Using Dawn's Gamma Ray and Neutron Detector, we tested models of Vesta's evolution
based on studies of howardite, eucrite, and diogenite (HED) meteorites. Global Fe/O and …

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 …

The dwarf planet Ceres (equatorial diameter 963km) is the largest object that has remained
in the main asteroid belt (Russell and Raymond, 2012), while most large bodies have been …

Abstract The dwarf planet (1) Ceres, the largest object in the main asteroid belt with a mean
diameter of about 950 kilometres, is located at a mean distance from the Sun of about 2.8 …

Localized dark and bright materials, often with extremely different albedos, were recently
found on Vesta's surface,. The range of albedos is among the largest observed on Solar …

Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) offer insight into a size range of objects that are not easily
observed in the main asteroid belt. Previous studies on the diversity of the NEA population …