The operational environment and rotational acceleration of asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx observations

The operational environment and rotational acceleration of asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx observations

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...

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Main Authors: 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
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2019-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09213-x

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09213-x

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