Paul A. Abell

TL;DR: Spectral shape over the 1-micrometer absorption band indicates that the surface of asteroid 25143 Itokawa has an olivine-rich mineral assemblage potentially similar to that of LL5 or LL6 chondrites.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of solar radiation on the near-term rotation rate of Asteroid Itokawa via the YORP effect was predicted using the detailed shape model, rotation pole, mass estimate, and optical properties derived from the Hayabusa mission to Itoka.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed mineralogical analysis of twelve olivine-dominated asteroids is presented, including Asporina, Nenetta, Aeternitas, Benkoela, Benkel, Eureka and Bamberry.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new visible and near-infrared spectra to demonstrate that thermally altered carbonaceous chondrites are plausible compositional analogs, however this is a tentative association due to a lack of prominent absorption features in their data.

TL;DR: In this article, a photometric analysis of the S-type Asteroid 25143 Itokawa is performed over multiple wavelengths ranging from 0.85 to 2.10 μm based on disk-resolved reflectance spectra obtained with the Hayabusa near-infrared spectrometer (NIRS).