Motion of dust ejected from the surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu

From Jan. 6, 2019 to Feb. 18, 2019, OSIRIS-REx observed asteroid (101955) Bennu ejecting 11 plumes of dust, of which part is escaping and another part is re-captured by the asteroid. The relative magnitudes of the typical forces acting on the emitted dust are quite different from the environments of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yu Jiang, Jürgen Schmidt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-10-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844020321186