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Examples of craters (circled in magenta) on Ben...

Examples of craters (circled in magenta) on Bennu stones. Shown are XCT-derived shape mo...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Fraction of ejected mass retained, M(v < vesc),...

Fraction of ejected mass retained, M(v < vesc), from cratering impacts into material wit...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Same-scale images of the bouldery surfaces of (...

Same-scale images of the bouldery surfaces of (a) stony asteroid Dimorphos, which has a ...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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(a) Results of SPH simulation of disruptive imp...

(a) Results of SPH simulation of disruptive impacts at 5.3 km s−1 into 50 m diameter Ben...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Rose diagrams showing the distribution of eject...

Rose diagrams showing the distribution of ejection angles for impact fragments relative ...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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The simulations of disruptive impacts into 50 m...

The simulations of disruptive impacts into 50 m diameter targets of different material t...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Sequence of frames from an ARMCam, capturing th...

Sequence of frames from an ARMCam, capturing the pour-out of Bennu material by NASA JSC ...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Comparison of a disruptive impact experiment (C...

Comparison of a disruptive impact experiment (CI_LG_HyFIRE_001) (a) to an SPH simulation...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Example of a disrupted boulder on Bennu located...

Example of a disrupted boulder on Bennu located at the center of a 128 m diameter crater...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Dynamics of a 40 m diameter (black) and a 4 m d...

Dynamics of a 40 m diameter (black) and a 4 m diameter (cyan) fragment penetrating into ...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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(a) Distribution of angle-of-repose (θ) measure...

(a) Distribution of angle-of-repose (θ) measurements for each MME. (b) Distribution of a...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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The cumulative frequency distribution of fragme...

The cumulative frequency distribution of fragments ejected from the simulated Bennu and ...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Morphological and XCT (∼5–10 μm/voxel) details ...

Morphological and XCT (∼5–10 μm/voxel) details of prominent craters on centimeter-scale ...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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(a) Impact chamber and diagnostics setup at the...

(a) Impact chamber and diagnostics setup at the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute’s Hy...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Handheld camera images of the products of the h...

Handheld camera images of the products of the hypervelocity impact experiments. (a) Post...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Depth, d, and diameter, D, of the craters on ce...

Depth, d, and diameter, D, of the craters on centimeter-scale Bennu samples. (a) Histogr...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Pre-impact micro-XCT slices of simulant targets...

Pre-impact micro-XCT slices of simulant targets at voxel sizes of ∼50 μm, which show qua...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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(a) Micro-XCT slice of the post-impact target f...

(a) Micro-XCT slice of the post-impact target from experiment CI_Lg_HyFire_003 at 51 μm/...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Detailed views of craters 4 and 5 (Figure 3(g))...

Detailed views of craters 4 and 5 (Figure 3(g)) on angular stone OREX-800123-0. (a) Clos...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Sequence of frames for experiment CI_LG_HyFire0...

Sequence of frames for experiment CI_LG_HyFire001, looking down into the chamber (the im...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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The CMFD of fragments produced by the three dis...

The CMFD of fragments produced by the three disruptive impact experiments. The data poin...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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The mean collisional lifetime of Bennu (and Ben...

The mean collisional lifetime of Bennu (and Bennu-like) particles, with radii from 0.1 m...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Examples of the XCT cross sections of Bennu sam...

Examples of the XCT cross sections of Bennu samples with impact craters that show the ra...

R.-L. Ballouz et al, The Planetary Science Journal 7 4

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Projected stellar obliquity (λ) of giant planet...

Projected stellar obliquity (λ) of giant planet (0.3 ≤ Mc < 13.6 MJ, gray), brown dwarf ...

Tianjun Gan et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 1

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Left panel: Gaussian mixture model fitting to t...

Left panel: Gaussian mixture model fitting to the ∣λ∣ distribution of giant planets (gra...

Tianjun Gan et al, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1002 1

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