In May of 2011, NASA selected the O rigins, S pectral I nterpretation, R esource I
dentification, and S ecurity–R egolith Ex plorer (OSIRIS-REx) asteroid sample return mission …

Meteorites are samples of dozens of small planetary bodies that formed in the early Solar
System. They exhibit great petrologic diversity, ranging from primordial accretional …

Abstract The Lucy Mission is a NASA Discovery-class mission to send a highly capable and
robust spacecraft to investigate seven primitive bodies near both the L 4 and L 5 Lagrange …

Abstract The Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA) mission is an international
cooperation between NASA and ESA. NASA plans to provide the Double Asteroid …

The small bodies of our solar system are the remnants of the early stages of planetary
formation. A considerable amount of information regarding the processes that occurred …

Context. Until recently, the 3D shape, and therefore density (when combining the volume
estimate with available mass estimates), and surface topography of the vast majority of the …

Context. The classification of the minor bodies of the Solar System based on observables
has been continuously developed and iterated over the past 40 yr. While prior iterations …

We analyzed more than 200 OSIRIS NAC images with a pixel scale of 0.9− 2.4 m/pixel of
comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (67P) that have been acquired from onboard the …

Context. Large sky surveys provide numerous non-targeted observations of small bodies of
the Solar System. The upcoming LSST of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will be the largest …

Context. The third data release by the Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (DR3) is
the first release to provide the community with a large sample of observations for more than …