Asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36: Spectroscopy from 0.4 to 2.4μm and meteorite analogs

By Beth E. Clark, R. Binzel, E. Howell, Edward A. Cloutis, M. Ockert-Bell, P. Christensen, M. Barucci, F. DeMeo, Dante S. Lauretta, H. Connolly and 5 more. 2011

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OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from Asteroid (101955) Bennu (2017, background): “Bennu has been extensively studied in the visible and infrared spectra (Clark et al. 2011; Müller et al. 2012; Emery et al. 2014; Binzel et al. 2015).”
OCAMS: The OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite (2017, methodology): “This imaging will connect Bennu’s ground-based pointsource observational record to later surface spectral imaging at higher resolutions (Tedesco et al. 1982; Clark et al. 2011).”
Properties of rubble-pile asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx imaging and thermal analysis (2019, background): “reflectance of CM chondrite meteorites [10], which are spectroscopically similar to Bennu [11].”
The OSIRIS‐REx target asteroid (101955) Bennu: Constraints on its physical, geological, and dynamical nature from astronomical observations (2015, methodology): “5), consistent with an albedo of 4 1% (Clark et al. 2011).”
In search of the source of asteroid (101955) Bennu: Applications of the stochastic YORP model (2015, result): “It is also consistent with numerical results describing how rubble-pile asteroids change shape in response to an increase/ decrease in rotational angular momentum via the YORP effect (see Cotto-Figueroa, 2013, submitted for publication; Statler, 2014, personal communication).”