High-resolution observations of bright boulders on asteroid Ryugu: 1. Size frequency distribution and morphology

Chiho Sugimoto , Eri Tatsumi , Yuichiro Cho , Tomokatsu Morota , Rie Honda , Shingo Kameda , Yosuhiro Yokota , Koki Yumoto , Minami Aoki , Daniella N Dellagiustina , Tatsuhiro Michikami , Takahiro Hiroi , Deborah L Domingue , Patrick Michel (1) , Stefan E Schröder , Tomoki Nakamura , Manabu Yamada , Naoya Sakatani , Toru Kouyama , Chikatoshi Honda , Masahiko Hayakawa , Moe Matsuoka , Hidehiko Suzuki , Kazuo Yoshioka , Kazunori Ogawa , Hirotaka Sawada , Masahiko Arakawa , Takanao Saiki , Hiroshi Imamura , Yasuhiko Takagi , Hajime Yano , Kei Shirai , Chisato Okamoto , Yuichi Tsuda , Satoru Nakazawa , Yuichi Iijima , Seiji Sugita

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Many small boulders with reflectance values higher than 1.5 times the average reflectance have been found on the near-Earth asteroid 162,173 Ryugu. Based on their visible wavelength spectral differences, Tatsumi et al.

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Astrophysics [astro-ph]; Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]

Chiho Sugimoto, Eri Tatsumi, Yuichiro Cho, Tomokatsu Morota, Rie Honda, et al.. High-resolution observations of bright boulders on asteroid Ryugu: 1. Size frequency distribution and morphology. Icarus, 2021, 369, pp.114529. ⟨10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114529⟩. ⟨insu-03381694⟩