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Philip Christensen

Regents Professor

  • 19792 Citations
  • 80 h-Index
1976 …2021
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Education/Academic qualification

PHD, University of California-Los Angeles

… → 1981

MS, University of California-Los Angeles

… → 1978

BS, University of California-Los Angeles

… → 1976

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Research Output 1976 2019

7 Citations (Scopus)

Craters, boulders and regolith of (101955) Bennu indicative of an old and dynamic surface

The OSIRIS-REx Team, Jan 1 2019, In : Nature Geoscience.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

regolith
asteroid
crater
mass movement
infill
6 Citations (Scopus)

Evidence for widespread hydrated minerals on asteroid (101955) Bennu

The OSIRIS-REx Team, Apr 1 2019, In : Nature Astronomy. 3, 4, p. 332-340 9 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

asteroids
minerals
organic chemistry
carbonaceous chondrites
regolith

Low-temperature specific heat capacity measurements and application to Mars thermal modeling

Vu, T. H., Piqueux, S., Choukroun, M., Edwards, C. S., Christensen, P. & Glotch, T. D., Mar 15 2019, In : Icarus. 321, p. 824-840 17 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

heat capacity
inertia
mars
Mars
specific heat
6 Citations (Scopus)

Properties of rubble-pile asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx imaging and thermal analysis

The OSIRIS-REx Team, Apr 1 2019, In : Nature Astronomy. 3, 4, p. 341-351 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

regolith
piles
asteroids
resources
thermal analysis

Publisher Correction: Craters, boulders and regolith of (101955) Bennu indicative of an old and dynamic surface (Nature Geoscience, (2019), 12, 4, (242-246), 10.1038/s41561-019-0326-6)

The OSIRIS-REx Team, Jan 1 2019, In : Nature Geoscience.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate

Open Access
regolith
crater

Projects 1986 2021

NASA SMD Exploration Connection

Anbar, A., Williams, D., Christensen, P., Semken, S., Wadhwa, M., Young, P., Bell, J., Walker, S. & Elkins-Tanton, L.

NASA: Goddard Space Flight Center

1/21/16 → 1/20/21

Project: Research project

BASALT: BIOLOGIC ANALOG SCIENCE ASSOCIATED WITH LAVA TERRAIN - REMOTE SENSING STUDIES

Christensen, P.

NASA: Ames Research Center

6/3/15 → 6/2/19

Project: Research project

Remote Sensing
Analogue
Graph in graph theory
Hypergraph
Sharp Threshold

Emirates Mars Explorer Institutional Phase A: Development of the Mars Infrared Ex

Christensen, P.

OTHER: Domestic Non-ABOR University

9/3/14 → 8/31/20

Project: Research project

mars
liquids
students
spectroscopy
education

OSIRIS-REx Science WBS 40

Christensen, P.

National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA)

6/1/13 → 3/30/20

Project: Research project

OSIRIS
particle size
asteroid
surface temperature
temperature

Europa Onboard Science Proposal

Christensen, P.

National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA)

10/10/17 → 9/30/18

Project: Research project