OSIRIS-REx Encounters Bennu: Initial Assessment from the Approach Phase


Dante S Lauretta1, Olivier S Barnouin2, Kris J Becker3, Carina A. Bennett3, Beau Bierhaus4, William V Boynton3, Keara N. Burke3, Philip R Christensen5, Beth Clark6, Harold C Connolly Jr1,7, M. Katherine Crombie8, Michael G Daly9, Daniella N DellaGiustina1, Jason P Dworkin10, Joshua P Emery11, Heather L Enos3, Dathon R Golish1, Victoria E Hamilton12, Carl Hergenrother3, Lucille Le Corre13, Lucy F Lim3, Patrick Michel14, Michael C Nolan3, Maurizio Pajola15, Mark E Perry2, Dennis Reuter16, Bashar Rizk3, Daniel Jay Scheeres17, Stephen R Schwartz3, Amy A Simon16, Kevin John Walsh18 and The OSIRIS-REx Team, (1)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, United States, (2)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)Lockheed Martin, Littleton, United States, (5)Arizona State University, School of Earth and Space Exploration, Tempe, AZ, United States, (6)Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, United States, (7)Rowan University, Department of Geology, School of Earth and Environment, Glassboro, NJ, United States, (8)Indigo Information Services, LLC, Tucson, AZ, United States, (9)York University, Centre for Research in Earth and Space Science, Toronto, ON, Canada, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, United States, (11)University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, United States, (12)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, United States, (14)Université Côte d’Azur, Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, CNRS, Laboratoire Lagrange, Nice, France, (15)INAF-Astronomical Observatory of Padova, Padova, Italy, (16)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (17)University of Colorado Boulder, Ann and H.J. Smead Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, (18)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States
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