L. A. McFadden

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used adaptive-optics and HST observations to verify the basaltic nature of Vesta inferred both from its reflectance spectrum and from the composition of the howardite, eucrite and diogenite meteorites believed to have originated on Vesta.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that if the development of OAOpq particles is minimized (such as at Vesta), contamination by exogenic material and regolith mixing become the dominant space weathering processes.

TL;DR: Schenk et al. as discussed by the authors described the origin of the bright spots in the central pit of the Moon as a "center point" and the origins of the visible spots.

Abstract: , M. Ciarniello, A. Frigeri, F.G. Carrozzo , J.-Ph Combe , B.L. Ehlmann, S. Marchi , H.Y. McSween, A. Raponi , J.C. CastilloRogez, M.J. Toplis, F. Tosi , F. Capaccioni , M.T. Capria, S. Fonte, M. Giardino, R. Jaumann , A. Longobardo, S.P. Joy , G. Magni , T.B. McCord, L.A. McFadden, E. Palomba , C. M. Pieters , C. A. Polanskey , M.D. Rayman, C. A. Raymond , P. Schenk , F. Zambon, C. T. Russell 1 and the Dawn Science Team University of California Los Angeles, EPSS, Los Ang eles, CA. USA. eleonora.ammannito@igpp.ucla.edu, 2 Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, IAPS, Rome, Italy, 3 Bear Fight Institute, Winthrop, WA, USA, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Ca, USA, Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302, US A, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tenness ee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1410, USA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA, IRAP, University of Toulouse, France, Deutsches Zentrum fur Luftund Raumfahrt, Institut e of Planetary Research, 12489 Berlin, Germany, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, U SA, Brown University, Department of Geological Sciences, Providence, RI 02912, USA, Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, USA.