Publication Date:
2019-07-13
Description:
Regolith from C (and related) asteroid bodies are a focus of the current missions Dawn at Ceres, Hayabusa 2 and OSIRIS REx. An asteroid as large as Ceres is expected to be covered by a mature regolith, and as Hayabusa demonstrated, flat and therefore engineeringly-safe ponded deposits will probably be the sampling sites for both Hayabusa 2 and OSIRIS REx. Here we examine what we have learned about the mineralogy of fine-grained asteroid regolith from recent meteorite studies and the examination of the samples harvested from asteroid Itokawa by Hayabusa.
Keywords:
Geophysics
Type:
JSC-CN-27843
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Lunar and Planetary Science Conference; Mar 18, 2013 - Mar 23, 2013; The Woodlands, TX; United States
Format:
application/pdf