Nature Communications (Mar 2019)
The operational environment and rotational acceleration of asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx observations
- C. W. Hergenrother,
- C. K. Maleszewski,
- M. C. Nolan,
- J.-Y. Li,
- C. Y. Drouet d’Aubigny,
- F. C. Shelly,
- E. S. Howell,
- T. R. Kareta,
- M. R. M. Izawa,
- M. A. Barucci,
- E. B. Bierhaus,
- H. Campins,
- S. R. Chesley,
- B. E. Clark,
- E. J. Christensen,
- D. N. DellaGiustina,
- S. Fornasier,
- D. R. Golish,
- C. M. Hartzell,
- B. Rizk,
- D. J. Scheeres,
- P. H. Smith,
- X.-D. Zou,
- D. S. Lauretta,
- The OSIRIS-REx Team
Affiliations
- C. W. Hergenrother
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- C. K. Maleszewski
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- M. C. Nolan
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- J.-Y. Li
- Planetary Science Institute
- C. Y. Drouet d’Aubigny
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- F. C. Shelly
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- E. S. Howell
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- T. R. Kareta
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- M. R. M. Izawa
- Institute for Planetary Materials, Okayama University-Misasa
- M. A. Barucci
- LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité
- E. B. Bierhaus
- Lockheed Martin Space
- H. Campins
- Department of Physics, University of Central Florida
- S. R. Chesley
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- B. E. Clark
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Ithaca College
- E. J. Christensen
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- D. N. DellaGiustina
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- S. Fornasier
- LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité
- D. R. Golish
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- C. M. Hartzell
- Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Maryland
- B. Rizk
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- D. J. Scheeres
- Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado
- P. H. Smith
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- X.-D. Zou
- Planetary Science Institute
- D. S. Lauretta
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona
- The OSIRIS-REx Team
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09213-x
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Vicinity of small bodies might be dangerous to the spacecrafts and to their instrumentation. Here the authors show the operational environment of asteroid Bennu, validate its photometric phase function and demonstrate the accelerating rotational rate due to YORP effect using the data acquired during the approach phase of OSIRIS-REx mission.
