Asteroid target selection for the new Rosetta mission baseline: 21 Lutetia and 2867 Steins

Keywords

Asteroid, Meteorite, Astrobiology, Enstatite, Achondrite

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Cited by

• Photometric and spectroscopic investigation of 2867 Steins, target of the Rosetta mission. Ground-based results prior to the Rosetta fly-byE. Dotto, D. Perna, S. Fornasier — 2009
• Masses of Small Bodies: Mass estimation of small solar system bodies using Radio Science data from close flybysT. Andert — 2010
• A portrait of the Rosetta targets 2867 Steins and 21 LutetiaS. Fornasier, Maria Antonella Barucci, I. N. Belskaya — 2010
• Photometric analysis of asteroids and comets from space observationsFiorangela La Forgia — 2014
• Asteroid 21 Lutetia at 3 μm: Observations with IRTF SpeXA. S. Rivkin, B. E. Clark, M. Ockert-Bell — 2011
• Asteroid 2867 Steins III. Spitzer Space Telescope observations, size determination, and thermal propertiesP. L. Lamy, L. Jordá, S. Fornasier — 2008
• Near infra-red spectroscopy of the asteroid 21 Lutetia - II. Rotationally resolved spectroscopy of the surfaceDan Alin Nedelcu, Mirel Birlan, Pierre Vernazza — 2007
• Near infra-red spectroscopy of the asteroid 21 Lutetia - I. New results of long-term campaignMirel Birlan, Pierre Vernazza, M. Fulchignoni — 2006
• Rotational variation of the spectral slope of (21) Lutetia, the second asteroid target of ESA Rosetta missionM. Lazzarin, Demetrio Magrin, S. Marchi — 2010
• Near-Earth asteroid surface roughness depends on compositional classL. A. M. Benner, S. J. Ostro, C. Magri — 2008
• PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM NEOWISE: AN ENHANCEMENT TO THE WIDE-FIELD INFRARED SURVEY EXPLORER FOR SOLAR SYSTEM SCIENCEAmy Mainzer, J. M. Bauer, T. Grav — 2011
• Oxygen and AsteroidsT. H. Burbine, A. S. Rivkin, S. K. Noble — 2008
• Physical and dynamical properties of the main belt triple asteroid (87) SylviaJ. Berthier, F. Vachier, Franck Marchis — 2014
• (21) Lutetia spectrophotometry from Rosetta-OSIRIS images and comparison to ground-based observationsDemetrio Magrin, Fiorangela La Forgia, M. Pajola — 2012
• Plausible parent bodies for enstatite chondrites and mesosiderites: Implications for Lutetia's fly-byPierre Vernazza, R. Brunetto, Richard P. Binzel — 2009
• The light curve of asteroid 21 Lutetia measured by VIRTIS-M during the Rosetta fly-byF. Tosi, A. Coradini, F. Capaccioni — 2010
• Thermal properties of asteroid 21 Lutetia from Spitzer Space Telescope observationsP. Lamy, O. Groussin, S. Fornasier — 2010
• Mission Analysis for Sample Retrieval from a Primitive Near-Earth AsteroidYasuhiro Kawakatsu, Masanao Abe, Jun’ichiro Kawaguchi — 2009
• Multi-color, rotationally resolved photometry of asteroid 21 Lutetia from OSIRIS/Rosetta observationsP. Lamy, G. Faury, L. Jordá — 2010
• The size and albedo of Rosetta fly-by target 21 Lutetia from new IRTF measurements and thermal modelingMichael Mueller, Alan W. Harris, S. J. Bus — 2006

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