AGU23 | 14 December 2023
Science Overview of the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt
Hoor Abdelrahman AlMazmi + Margaret E Landis + Paul Ottinger Hayne ...
The Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) is a main belt asteroid tour that will fly by 6 asteroids and rendezvous with the seventh. The mission will visit a diverse...
AGU23 | 13 December 2023
Physics Simulation-Based Study on the Shapes of Rubble-Pile Asteroids Formed from Rigid Fragments
Tatsunori Tsunoda + Naru Hirata
There are various shapes of rubble-pile asteroids. Ryugu and Bennu have a nearly rotationally symmetric top shape, while Itokawa has an elongated shape. Ground-based telescope...
AGU23 | 13 December 2023
UV-Visible Spectral Characteristics of Primitive Asteroids: Links to Hydration History?
Amanda R Hendrix + Faith Vilas
UV-visible wavelength spectroscopy indicates tantalizing differences among the sub-classes of the primitive types of asteroids: the C-complex subclasses B-, Cgh- and Ch-types...
AGU23 | 13 December 2023
The Case of the Missing Mantle: Spectroscopic Detection Thresholds for Proto-crusts and -mantles in Chondritic Asteroids
Cody Schultz + Ralph Milliken
There is abundant evidence in the meteorite record that early forming planetesimals, the progenitors of primitive achondrites, stony achondrites, and iron meteorites, experienced...
AGU23 | 14 December 2023
Stellar occultations by asteroids obtained within the Unistellar's network of citizen astronomers
Josef Hanus + Franck Marchis + Josef Durech ...
The Unistellar’s eVscopes telescope owners (~10,000) represent the largest worldwide network of potential citizen astronomers. These compact (9 kg) telescopes are equipped...