The REgolith X-Ray Imaging Spectrometer (REXIS) for OSIRIS-REx: identifying regional elemental enrichment on asteroids

The OSIRIS-REx Mission was selected under the NASA New Frontiers program and is scheduled for launch in September of 2016 for a rendezvous with, and collection of a sample from the surface of asteroid Bennu in 2019. 101955 Bennu (previously 1999 RQ36) is an Apollo (near-Earth) asteroid originally di...

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Main Authors: Allen, Branden, Grindlay, Jonathan E., Hong, Jaesub, Inamdar, Niraj K., Bautz, Marshall W., Kissel, Steve E., Oprescu, Miruna, Induni, Nicholas, Masterson, Rebecca A., Chodas, Mark A., Smith, Matthew William, Villasenor, Jesus Noel Samonte, Binzel, Richard P
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85182
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