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

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

Other:: Joseph Louis LAGRANGE (LAGRANGE) ; Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (1965 - 2019) (UNS) ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur ; COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)

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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.

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

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