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Corrected absolute magnitude (H; P. Pravec et a...

Corrected absolute magnitude (H; P. Pravec et al. 2012) vs. NEATM-derived beaming parame...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Corrected absolute magnitude (H; P. Pravec et a...

Corrected absolute magnitude (H; P. Pravec et al. 2012) vs. NEATM-derived geometric albe...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Spectrophotometric slope vs. H-magnitude. Spect...

Spectrophotometric slope vs. H-magnitude. Spectrophotometric slopes of Koronis family ta...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Histogram of ATLAS c − o colors for our targets...

Histogram of ATLAS c − o colors for our targets compared with the expected mean Bus–DeMe...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Top: histogram of spectral slope for Koronis fa...

Top: histogram of spectral slope for Koronis family members (black) and Karin cluster me...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Beaming parameter η (left) and geometric albedo...

Beaming parameter η (left) and geometric albedo pV (right) vs. absolute magnitude H for ...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Thermal conductivity as a function of regolith ...

Thermal conductivity as a function of regolith particle radius for Gaspra (top) and Ida ...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Best-fit NEATM SED for the two ground-truth tar...

Best-fit NEATM SED for the two ground-truth targets in this work: 951 Gaspra (left) and ...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Phased ATLAS photometric data for six Koronis f...

Phased ATLAS photometric data for six Koronis family targets without previously publishe...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Corner plot for the posterior probability distr...

Corner plot for the posterior probability distributions of NEATM-derived D, pV, and η fo...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Continuation of Figure 12, showing corner plots...

Continuation of Figure 12, showing corner plots of the posterior probability distributio...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Continuation of Figures 10 and 11, showing corn...

Continuation of Figures 10 and 11, showing corner plots of the posterior probability dis...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Continuation of Figures 10–12, showing corner p...

Continuation of Figures 10–12, showing corner plots of the posterior probability distrib...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Taxonomic classification for all targets in thi...

Taxonomic classification for all targets in this work with available visible to near-inf...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Continuation of Figure 10, showing taxonomic cl...

Continuation of Figure 10, showing taxonomic classification fits for the remaining Koron...

Annika Gustafsson et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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A median-stacked image of all eight 370 s scien...

A median-stacked image of all eight 370 s science exposures taken by HST WFC3 of V6 on 2...

John W. Noonan and Theodore Kareta, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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A secular light curve (e.g., apparent magnitude...

A secular light curve (e.g., apparent magnitude over time) of V6 is shown with data acce...

John W. Noonan and Theodore Kareta, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Estimated characteristic temperatures for outga...

Estimated characteristic temperatures for outgassing (solid lines), sintering (dashed–do...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Comparing timescales of reaction kinetics with ...

Comparing timescales of reaction kinetics with those of sintering across temperatures. O...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Sample evolution of a Rc = 40 km CI body, with ...

Sample evolution of a Rc = 40 km CI body, with 3.5 wt% initial C abundance and compariso...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Evolution of (a) bulk C reservoirs and (b) poro...

Evolution of (a) bulk C reservoirs and (b) porosities of OC and C V bodies with differen...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Diffusion timescales in fiducial Rc = 60 km bod...

Diffusion timescales in fiducial Rc = 60 km bodies’ interiors, for different chondritic ...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Evolutions of fiducial planetesimals with diffe...

Evolutions of fiducial planetesimals with different chondritic compositions. Each plot i...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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Chemical equilibrium with four chondritic redox...

Chemical equilibrium with four chondritic redox states. Top: total equilibrium pressures...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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The fraction of total carbon reservoir left at ...

The fraction of total carbon reservoir left at 10 Myr, relative to a planetesimal’s init...

Bo Peng et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 6

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