Distributions and Morphological Characteristics of Bright Spots on Boulders Covering the Surface of Asteroid Itokawa

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Mar 2009

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40th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, (Lunar and Planetary Science XL), held March 23-27, 2009 in The Woodlands, Texas, i

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We scrutinized the highest-resolution images of the asteroid Itokawa to
identify 387 bright spots on the surfaces of 123 boulders. Our
preliminary results indicate ~90% of these bright spots are formed as
results of micrometeoroid impacts.

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