Published March 2019
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Prediction of Meteor Activities from (101955) Bennu
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California Institute of Technology
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Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
Abstract
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, currently orbiting near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, has detected dust emission from the asteroid (Lauretta et al. 2019). Dust emissions from near-Earth asteroids and comets are responsible for most meteor activities at the Earth. Bennu has a Minimum Orbital Intersection Distance of only 0.003 au, comparable to many meteor shower parents. Here we present a preliminary calculation of the encounters between the recent ejecta from Bennu and the Earth.
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© 2019 The American Astronomical Society. Received 2019 March 25; Accepted 2019 March 25; Published 2019 March 27. I thank Man-To Hui for reading the manuscript. Support by the GROWTH project funded by the National Science Foundation under grant No. 1545949 is gratefully acknowledged. Software: MERCURY (Chambers & Migliorini 1997).Attached Files
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- NSF
- AST-1545949
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2019-03-29Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-16Created from EPrint's last_modified field
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