Solar System evolution from compositional map** of the asteroid belt

FE DeMeo, B Carry - Nature, 2014‏ - nature.com
Advances in the discovery and characterization of asteroids over the past decade have
revealed an unanticipated underlying structure that points to a dramatic early history of the …

Observations, meteorites, and models: a preflight assessment of the composition and formation of (16) Psyche

LT Elkins‐Tanton, E Asphaug, JF Bell III… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Some years ago, the consensus was that asteroid (16) Psyche was almost entirely metal.
New data on density, radar properties, and spectral signatures indicate that the asteroid is …

[PDF][PDF] The planetary and lunar ephemerides DE430 and DE431

WM Folkner, JG Williams, DH Boggs… - Interplanetary …, 2014‏ - ilrs.cddis.eosdis.nasa.gov
The planetary and lunar ephemerides DE430 and DE431 are generated by fitting
numerically integrated orbits of the Moon and planets to observations. The present-day lunar …

VLT/SPHERE imaging survey of the largest main-belt asteroids: Final results and synthesis

P Vernazza, M Ferrais, L Jorda, J Hanuš… - Astronomy & …, 2021‏ - aanda.org
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 …

The taxonomic distribution of asteroids from multi-filter all-sky photometric surveys

FE DeMeo, B Carry - Icarus, 2013‏ - Elsevier
The distribution of asteroids across the main belt has been studied for decades to
understand the current compositional distribution and what that tells us about the formation …

Asteroid taxonomy from cluster analysis of spectrometry and albedo

M Mahlke, B Carry, PA Mattei - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2022‏ - aanda.org
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 …

The multifaceted planetesimal formation process

A Johansen, J Blum, H Tanaka, C Ormel… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2014‏ - arxiv.org
Accumulation of dust and ice particles into planetesimals is an important step in the planet
formation process. Planetesimals are the seeds of both terrestrial planets and the solid cores …

Variations in color and reflectance on the surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu

DN DellaGiustina, KN Burke, KJ Walsh, PH Smith… - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
INTRODUCTION The color and reflectance of asteroids can be used to infer their
compositions and histories. Variations in these spectrophotometric properties are driven by …

The pH of Enceladus' ocean

CR Glein, JA Baross, JH Waite Jr - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Saturn's moon, Enceladus, is a geologically active waterworld. The prevailing paradigm is
that there is a subsurface ocean that erupts to the surface, which leads to the formation of a …

[كتاب][B] The dawn mission to Vesta and Ceres

CT Russell, CA Raymond - 2012‏ - Springer
The Dawn mission journeys to the center of the main asteroid belt to orbit and explore the
two most massive main belt asteroids, Vesta and Ceres. Dawn aims to increase our …