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Benjamin Rozitis
Researcher at Open University
Publications - 25
Citations - 1071
Benjamin Rozitis is an academic researcher from Open University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Asteroid & Near-Earth object. The author has an hindex of 9, co-authored 24 publications receiving 706 citations.
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Orbit and bulk density of the OSIRIS-REx target Asteroid (101955) Bennu
Steven R. Chesley,Davide Farnocchia,Michael C. Nolan,David Vokrouhlický,Paul W. Chodas,Andrea Milani,Federica Spoto,Benjamin Rozitis,Lance A. M. Benner,William F. Bottke,Michael W. Busch,Joshua P. Emery,Ellen S. Howell,Dante S. Lauretta,Jean-Luc Margot,Patrick A. Taylor +15 more
TL;DR: The OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission target, (101955) Bennu (formerly 1999 RQ 36), is a half-kilometer near-Earth asteroid with an extraordinarily well constrained orbit as mentioned in this paper.
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Evidence for widespread hydrated minerals on asteroid (101955) Bennu.
V. E. Hamilton,Amy Simon,Philip R. Christensen,D. C. Reuter,Beth E. Clark,M. A. Barucci,Neil Bowles,William V. Boynton,John Robert Brucato,Edward A. Cloutis,Harold C. Connolly,K. L. Donaldson Hanna,Josh Emery,H. L. Enos,Sonia Fornasier,Christopher W. Haberle,Romy D. Hanna,Ellen S. Howell,Hannah Kaplan,Lindsay P. Keller,C. Lantz,Jian-Yang Li,Lucy F. Lim,Timothy J. McCoy,F. Merlin,Michael C. Nolan,A. Praet,Benjamin Rozitis,Scott A. Sandford,Devin L. Schrader,Cristina A. Thomas,Xiao-Duan Zou,Dante S. Lauretta +32 more
TL;DR: Early spectral data from the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission reveal evidence for abundant hydrated minerals on the surface of near Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu in the form of a near-infrared absorption near 2.7
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Properties of Rubble-Pile Asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx Imaging and Thermal Analysis
Daniella DellaGiustina,Josh Emery,Dathon Golish,Benjamin Rozitis,Carina Bennett,K. N. Burke,Ronald-Louis Ballouz,Kris J. Becker,Philip R. Christensen,C. Drouet d'Aubigny,V. E. Hamilton,D. C. Reuter,Bashar Rizk,Amy Simon,Erik Asphaug,Joshua L. Bandfield,Olivier S. Barnouin,M. A. Barucci,E. B. Bierhaus,R. P. Binzel,William F. Bottke,Neil Bowles,Humberto Campins,B. C. Clark,Beth E. Clark,Harold C. Connolly,Michael Daly,J. de León,Marco Delbo,J. D. P. Deshapriya,Catherine Elder,Sonia Fornasier,Carl Hergenrother,Ellen S. Howell,Erica Jawin,Hannah Kaplan,Theodore Kareta,L. Le Corre,Jian-Yang Li,Javier Licandro,Lucy F. Lim,Patrick Michel,Jamie Molaro,Michael C. Nolan,Maurizio Pajola,Marcel Popescu,J. L. Rizos Garcia,Andrew Ryan,Stephen R. Schwartz,N. Shultz,Matthew A. Siegler,P. H. Smith,Eri Tatsumi,Cristina A. Thomas,Kevin J. Walsh,C. W. V. Wolner,Xiao-Duan Zou,Dante S. Lauretta +57 more
TL;DR: Using images and thermal data from NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft, this paper showed that asteroid (101955) Bennu's surface is globally rough, dense with boulders, and low in albedo.
Shape of (101955) Bennu indicative of a rubble pile with internal stiffness
Olivier S. Barnouin,Michael Daly,Eric Palmer,Robert Gaskell,J.R. Weirich,Catherine L. Johnson,M.M. Al Asad,J. H. Roberts,M.E. Perry,Hannah C.M. Susorney,R. T. Daly,E. B. Bierhaus,J. A. Seabrook,R. C. Espiritu,A. H. Nair,L. Nguyen,Gregory A. Neumann,C.M. Ernst,William V. Boynton,Michael C. Nolan,Coralie D. Adam,Michael C. Moreau,B. Risk,C. Drouet d'Aubigny,E.R. Jawin,Kevin J. Walsh,Patrick Michel,S. R. Schwartz,R. L. Ballouz,E.M. Mazarico,D. J. Scheeres,Jay W. McMahon,William F. Bottke,Seiji Sugita,Naru Hirata,Sei-ichiro Watanabe,K. N. Burke,D. N. DellaGuistina,C. A. Bennett,D.S. Lauretta,C. D. Adam,M. Al Asad,B. Allen,Peter G. Antreasian,S. Anwar,José C. Aponte,A. Aqueche,B. Ashman,Erik Asphaug,E. Audi,J. Backer,Ronald Ballouz,Joshua L. Bandfield,Michael K. Barker,O. S. Barnouin,Arlin E. Bartels,Antonella Barucci,Jeremy Bauman,J. Bayron,Kris J. Becker,Tammy L. Becker,Chloe B. Beddingfield,K. Bellamy,Julie Bellerose,S. Bendall,Carina Bennett,K. L. Berry,S. Bhaskaran,B. Bierhaus,O. Billett,R. P. Binzel,Philip A. Bland,H. Bloomenthal,L. Bloomquist,D. Blum,A. Boggs,N. Bojorquez-Murphy,Brent J. Bos,H. Bowles,Neil Bowles,C. Boyles,W. Boynton,D. N. Brack,L. B. Breitenfeld,Juliette I. Brodbeck,E. Brown,John Robert Brucato,Charles Brunet,C. Bryan,B. Buck,Kevin Burke,R. Burns,Aaron S. Burton,Andrew B. Calloway,Humberto Campins,Michael Caplinger,Brian Carcich,S. Carlson-Kelly,R. Carpenter,S. Carter,N. Castro,J. Cerna,K. Chaffin,W. Chang,S. R. Chesley,A. Cheuvront,R. A. Chicoine,M. Chodas,Matthew Chojnacki,P. R. Christensen,E. Church,B. C. Clark,S. J. Clemett,Edward A. Cloutis,M. Coltrin,H. C. Connolly,J. Contreras,M. Corvin,R. Cosentino,Kathleen L. Craft,K. Crombie,J. Cutts,J. Daly,M. G. Daly,Christian Drouet d'Aubigny,J. de León,D. Dean,A. Deguzman,Marco Delbo,Daniella DellaGiustina,J. D. P. Deshapriya,S. Desjardins,B. Diallo,S. Dickenshied,Clive Dickinson,K. Dill,D. Doerres,K. L. Donaldson Hanna,E. Dotto,D. Drinnon,K. Drozd,R. D. Dubisher,Jason P. Dworkin,D. Eckart,K. L. Edmundson,Catherine Elder,J. Elsila Cook,J. P. Emery,C. Emr,H. L. Enos,R. Enos,Carolyn M. Ernst,R. Espiritu,D. F. Everett,P. Falkenstern,Davide Farnocchia,C. Fellows,D. Fennell,Yan Fernandez,T. Ferro,S. Ferrone,A. Fisher,M. Fisher,T. Fisher,G. Fitzgibbon,M. Fitzgibbon,Peter Fleming,K. Fleshman,D. Folta,J. Forelli,S. Fornasier,T. Forrester,K. Fortney,Ian A. Franchi,S. Francis,J. Freemantle,A. S. French,S. Freund,M. Fulchignoni,I. Galinsky,Rafael A. García,A. Gardner,S. Gardner,James B. Garvin,R. W. Gaskell,D. Gaudreau,J. Geeraert,K. Getzandanner,Rebecca R. Ghent,M. Giuntini,Daniel P. Glavin,Timothy D. Glotch,D. R. Golish,S. Gonzales,N. Gorius,J. Grindlay,Jeffrey N. Grossman,D. Guevel,P. Haas,Christopher W. Haberle,Namrah Habib,W. Hagee,T. Haltigin,D. K. Hamara,V. E. Hamilton,David K. Hammond,Romy D. Hanna,A. Harbison,A. Harch,K. Harshman,Christine Hartzell,Pedro Hasselmann,Paul O. Hayne,C. W. Hergenrother,Dolan E. Highsmith,A. Hilbert,Alan R. Hildebrand,Dolores H. Hill,J. Hill,D. Hoak,C. Hoekenga,J. Hoffman,Mark E. Holdridge,J. Hong,S. Hooven,D. Howell,Ellen S. Howell,E. Huettner,S. Hull,K. Hyde,H. Ido,A. Ingegneri,Trevor Ireland,Matthew R.M. Izawa,F. Jaen,Erica Jawin,N. Jayakody,Mark A. Jenkins,Catherine Johnson,G. Johnston,John H. Jones,M. L. Jones,N. Jones,Jonathan Joseph,P. Kaotira,Hannah Kaplan,Theodore Kareta,E. Keates,Luke D. Keller,Brian Kennedy,B. Key,J. N. Kidd,A. Knight,S. S. Balram-Knutson,L. Koelbel,J. Kreiner,D. Kubitschek,David L. Lambert,M. Lambert,C. Lantz,Dante S. Lauretta,L. Le Corre,M. Lefevre,J. M. Leonard,E. J. Lessac-Chenen,A. Levine,Collin Lewin,J. Y. Li,J. Liang,Guy Libourel,Javier Licandro,L. F. Lim,Andrew J. Liounis,C. C. Lorentson,D. A. Lorenz,B. Lovelace,M. Loveridge,M. Lujan,Allen W. Lunsford,J. Lyzhoft,H. Ma,C. K. Maleszewski,Renu Malhotra,J. A. Mapel,K. Marchese,Courtney Mario,John Marshall,K. Martin,N. Martinez-Vlasoff,B. Marty,R. A. Masterson,N. Mastrodemos,C. May,Erwan Mazarico,E. Mazzotta Epifani,J. McAdams,Leilah K. McCarthy,Timothy J. McCoy,E. McDonough,Timothy P. McElrath,M. McGee,Lauren McGraw,L. McNamara,G. L. Mehall,F. Merlin,Scott Messenger,Moses Milazzo,C. Miller,G. Miller,S. Millington-Veloza,Martin Miner,Ronald G. Mink,A. Mirfakhrai,N. Mogk,Jamie Molaro,W. Moore,M. Moreau,Melissa A. Morris,V. Morrison,E. T. Morton,E. Muhle,S. Mullen,R. Munoz,J. Nagy,H. Nair,Keiko Nakamura-Messenger,Derek S. Nelson,J. Nelson,G. Neumann,A. Nguyen,V. Nifo,M. C. Nolan,C. Norman,D. Noss,Joseph A. Nuth,R. Olds,S. Oliver,William M. Owen,B. Page,Maurizio Pajola,Elizabeth M. Palmer,C. L. Parish,Ryan S. Park,D. Patterson,J. Peachey,J. Y. Pelgrift,R. Pennington,Mark E. Perry,Lydia C. Philpott,N. Piacentine,Jeffrey B. Plescia,Giovanni Poggiali,D. Poland,A. T. Polit,A. Praet,E. Queen,N. Ramos,M. Rascon,Vishnu Reddy,D. C. Reuter,L. Rhoads,Derek C. Richardson,S. Rieger,Kevin Righter,K. Rios,Bashar Rizk,J. L. Rizos Garcia,James H. Roberts,D. Rogers,H. L. Roper,David D. Rowlands,Benjamin Rozitis,A. Rubi,Brian Rush,Sara S. Russell,Andrew Ryan,M. Ryle,Eric M. Sahr,S. Salazar,D. Sallitt,Scott A. Sandford,Daniel J. Scheeres,M. Schmitzer,Devin L. Schrader,Stephen R. Schwartz,J. Seabrook,S. Selznick,G. Shaw,P. Sherman,N. Shultz,S. Sides,Matthew A. Siegler,Amy Simon,M. Skeen,J. Small,Michael D. Smith,P. H. Smith,S. W. Squyres,K. Stakkestad,Dale Stanbridge,R. J. Steele,J. Stromberg,M. Susak,H. Susorney,B. Sutter,Stephen R. Sutton,L. Swanson,J. Swenson,Timothy D. Swindle,Shogo Tachibana,Kimberly T. Tait,Y. Takahashi,A. Taylor,F. Teti,C. Thayer,Cristina A. Thomas,Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta,Florian Thuillet,Amanda E. Toland,Q. Tran,D. Trang,Pasquale Tricarico,Russell Turner,P. Vasudeva,David G. Vaughan,D. Velez,D. Vokrouhlicky,Kevin Walsh,S.-i. Watanabe,J. R. Weirich,C. Welch,J. Wendel,M. M. Westermann,Daniel R. Wibben,B. G. Williams,Kaj E. Williams,R. Witherspoon,P. Wolff,C. W. V. Wolner,J. Wood,D. Worden,P. Wren,B. Wright,K. Yetter,Masako Yoshikawa,Hisayoshi Yurimoto,J. Zareski,Thomas J. Zega,R. Zellar,Z. Zeszut,Xiao-Duan Zou +450 more
TL;DR: The shape model indicates that near-Earth asteroid Bennu formed by reaccumulation and underwent past periods of fast spin, which led to its current shape, similar to other top-shaped asteroids.
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Hemispherical differences in the shape and topography of asteroid (101955) Bennu
Michael Daly,Olivier S. Barnouin,J. A. Seabrook,James H. Roberts,Clive Dickinson,Kevin J. Walsh,Erica Jawin,Eric Palmer,Robert Gaskell,J. R. Weirich,T. Haltigin,D. Gaudreau,Charles Brunet,G. Cunningham,P. Michel,Yun Zhang,R. L. Ballouz,Gregory A. Neumann,Mark E. Perry,Lydia C. Philpott,M. Al Asad,Catherine L. Johnson,Catherine L. Johnson,Coralie D. Adam,Jason M. Leonard,J. Geeraert,K. Getzandanner,M. C. Nolan,R. T. Daly,E. B. Bierhaus,Erwan Mazarico,Benjamin Rozitis,Andrew Ryan,D. N. DellaGuistina,Bashar Rizk,Hannah C.M. Susorney,H. L. Enos,Dante S. Lauretta +37 more
TL;DR: It is found that longitudinal ridges previously identified in the north extend into the south but are obscured there by surface material, which results in Bennu’s southern hemisphere being rounder and smoother, whereas its northern hemisphere has higher slopes and a less regular shape.