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In search of the source of asteroid (101955) Bennu: Applications of the stochastic YORP model

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In this paper, the authors used a suite of numerical simulations to determine the ages of the families above, how Bennu reached its current orbit, and the most probable source family for Bennu.
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This article is published in Icarus.The article was published on 2015-02-01. It has received 144 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Asteroid family & Asteroid.

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OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from Asteroid (101955) Bennu

TL;DR: The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft departed for near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu via an United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 evolved expendable launch vehicle at 7:05 p.m. EDT on September 8, 2016, on a seven-year journey to return samples from Bennu as discussed by the authors.
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The geomorphology, color, and thermal properties of Ryugu: Implications for parent-body processes

Seiji Sugita, +132 more
- 19 Apr 2019 - 
TL;DR: Spectral observations and a principal components analysis suggest that Ryugu originates from the Eulalia or Polana asteroid family in the inner main belt, possibly via more than one generation of parent bodies.
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Hayabusa2 Mission Overview

TL;DR: The Hayabusa2 mission as mentioned in this paper was the first mission to explore a C-type near-Earth asteroid (162173) Ryugu (1999 JU3) to observe and explore the 900 m-sized object, and return samples collected from the surface layer.
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Debiased orbit and absolute-magnitude distributions for near-Earth objects

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented a new four-dimensional model of the near-Earth objects population that describes debiased steady-state distributions of semimajor axis, eccentricity, inclination, and absolute magnitude H in the range 17.962 − 56 + 52 + 52 ( 802 − 42 + 48 × 10 3 ) NEOs with H.
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Asteroid family ages

TL;DR: In this paper, a catalog of proper elements with ∼384,000 numbered asteroids and on new methods is available, including a least squares fit of the two sides of a V-shape plot in the proper semimajor axis, inverse diameter plane to determine the corresponding slopes, an advanced error model for the uncertainties of asteroid diameters, an iterative outlier rejection scheme and quality control.
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Meteorite Delivery via Yarkovsky Orbital Drift

TL;DR: In this article, a unified discussion of the Yarkovsky effect in both the original, "diurnal" variant and also for the "seasonal" variant has been provided for meteorite-sized, regolith-free asteroid fragments.
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Contamination of the asteroid belt by primordial trans-Neptunian objects

TL;DR: It is shown that the violent dynamical evolution of the giant-planet orbits required by the so-called Nice model leads to the insertion of primitive trans-Neptunian objects into the outer belt, implying that the observed diversity of the asteroid belt is not a direct reflection of the intrinsic compositional variation of the proto-planetary disk.
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Binary asteroid population 1. Angular momentum content

TL;DR: The most abundant binary population is that of close binary systems among near-Earth, Mars-crossing, and main belt asteroids that have a primary diameter of about 10 km or smaller as mentioned in this paper.
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Iron meteorites as remnants of planetesimals formed in the terrestrial planet region

TL;DR: It is shown that the iron-meteorite parent bodies most probably formed in the terrestrial planet region, and it is predicted that some asteroids are main-belt interlopers and a select few may even be remnants of the long-lost precursor material that formed the Earth.
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Bias-corrected population, size distribution, and impact hazard for the near-Earth objects

TL;DR: In this article, Binzel et al. used the largest available data sets for the observed taxonomic and albedo distributions of the near-Earth object population to model the bias-corrected population.
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