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| Craters, boulders and regolith of (101955) Bennu indicative of an old and dynamic surface KJ Walsh, ER Jawin, RL Ballouz, OS Barnouin, EB Bierhaus, ... Nature Geoscience 12 (4), 242-246, 2019 | 231 | 2019 |
| An implementation of the soft-sphere discrete element method in a high-performance parallel gravity tree-code SR Schwartz, DC Richardson, P Michel Granular Matter 14, 363-380, 2012 | 212 | 2012 |
| European component of the AIDA mission to a binary asteroid: Characterization and interpretation of the impact of the DART mission P Michel, M Kueppers, H Sierks, I Carnelli, AF Cheng, K Mellab, ... Advances in Space Research 62 (8), 2261-2272, 2018 | 192 | 2018 |
| Successful kinetic impact into an asteroid for planetary defence RT Daly, CM Ernst, OS Barnouin, NL Chabot, AS Rivkin, AF Cheng, ... Nature 616 (7957), 443-447, 2023 | 187 | 2023 |
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| Collisional formation of top-shaped asteroids and implications for the origins of Ryugu and Bennu P Michel, RL Ballouz, OS Barnouin, M Jutzi, KJ Walsh, BH May, ... Nature Communications 11 (1), 2655, 2020 | 114 | 2020 |
| Pebbles and sand on asteroid (162173) Ryugu: In situ observation and particles returned to Earth S Tachibana, H Sawada, R Okazaki, Y Takano, K Sakamoto, YN Miura, ... Science 375 (6584), 1011-1016, 2022 | 112 | 2022 |
| Creep stability of the proposed AIDA mission target 65803 Didymos: I. Discrete cohesionless granular physics model Y Zhang, DC Richardson, OS Barnouin, C Maurel, P Michel, SR Schwartz, ... Icarus 294, 98-123, 2017 | 105 | 2017 |
| Rotational failure of rubble-pile bodies: influences of shear and cohesive strengths Y Zhang, DC Richardson, OS Barnouin, P Michel, SR Schwartz, ... The Astrophysical Journal 857 (1), 15, 2018 | 104 | 2018 |
| Numerical predictions of surface effects during the 2029 close approach of asteroid 99942 Apophis Y Yu, DC Richardson, P Michel, SR Schwartz, RL Ballouz Icarus 242, 82-96, 2014 | 97 | 2014 |
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| In situ evidence of thermally induced rock breakdown widespread on Bennu’s surface JL Molaro, KJ Walsh, ER Jawin, RL Ballouz, CA Bennett, ... Nature Communications 11 (1), 2913, 2020 | 91 | 2020 |
| Bennu’s near-Earth lifetime of 1.75 million years inferred from craters on its boulders RL Ballouz, KJ Walsh, OS Barnouin, DN DellaGiustina, MA Asad, ... Nature 587 (7833), 205-209, 2020 | 88 | 2020 |
| Catastrophic disruptions as the origin of bilobate comets SR Schwartz, P Michel, M Jutzi, S Marchi, Y Zhang, DC Richardson Nature astronomy 2 (5), 379-382, 2018 | 88 | 2018 |
| Asteroid Surface Geophysics, appearing in: ASTEROIDS IV, Michel, P., DeMeo, F.E., Bottke, W.F. (Eds.) N Murdoch, P Sánchez, SR Schwartz, H Miyamoto arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.01931, University of Arizona Press, 2015 | 79 | 2015 |
| The Brazil nut effect and its application to asteroids S Matsumura, DC Richardson, P Michel, SR Schwartz, RL Ballouz Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 443 (4), 3368-3380, 2014 | 63 | 2014 |
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Ron BallouzThe Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics LabVerified email at jhuapl.edu