@article{3b4b1ac3d569422ba59c57225e305871,
title = "Evidence for widespread hydrated minerals on asteroid (101955) Bennu",
abstract = "Early spectral data from the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission reveal evidence for abundant hydrated minerals on the surface of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu in the form of a near-infrared absorption near 2.7 µm and thermal infrared spectral features that are most similar to those of aqueously altered CM-type carbonaceous chondrites. We observe these spectral features across the surface of Bennu, and there is no evidence of substantial rotational variability at the spatial scales of tens to hundreds of metres observed to date. In the visible and near-infrared (0.4 to 2.4 µm) Bennu{\textquoteright}s spectrum appears featureless and with a blue (negative) slope, confirming previous ground-based observations. Bennu may represent a class of objects that could have brought volatiles and organic chemistry to Earth.",
author = "{The OSIRIS-REx Team} and Hamilton, {V. E.} and Simon, {A. A.} and Christensen, {P. R.} and Reuter, {D. C.} and Clark, {B. E.} and Barucci, {M. A.} and Bowles, {N. E.} and Boynton, {W. V.} and Brucato, {J. R.} and Cloutis, {E. A.} and Connolly, {H. C.} and {Donaldson Hanna}, {K. L.} and Emery, {J. P.} and Enos, {H. L.} and S. Fornasier and Haberle, {C. W.} and Hanna, {R. D.} and Howell, {E. S.} and Kaplan, {H. H.} and Keller, {L. P.} and C. Lantz and Li, {J. Y.} and Lim, {L. F.} and McCoy, {T. J.} and F. Merlin and Nolan, {M. C.} and A. Praet and B. Rozitis and Sandford, {S. A.} and Schrader, {D. L.} and Thomas, {C. A.} and Zou, {X. D.} and Lauretta, {D. S.} and Highsmith, {D. E.} and J. Small and D. Vokrouhlick{\'y} and Bowles, {N. E.} and E. Brown and {Donaldson Hanna}, {K. L.} and T. Warren and C. Brunet and Chicoine, {R. A.} and S. Desjardins and D. Gaudreau and T. Haltigin and S. Millington-Veloza and A. Rubi and Schrader, {D. L.} and E. Asphaug and Christensen, {P. R.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.",
year = "2019",
month = apr,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1038/s41550-019-0722-2",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "3",
pages = "332--340",
journal = "Nature Astronomy",
issn = "2397-3366",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "4",
}