D. S. Lauretta

Research interests

Publications

• Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu

  Nature Astronomy · 2025 · 10.1038/s41550-024-02472-9

• Asteroid (101955) Bennu in the laboratory: Properties of the sample collected by OSIRIS ‐ REx

  Meteoritics and Planetary Science · 2024 · 10.1111/maps.14227

• Soluble organic molecules in samples of the carbonaceous asteroid (162173) Ryugu

  Science · 2023 · 10.1126/science.abn9033

• Pebbles and sand on asteroid (162173) Ryugu: In situ observation and particles returned to Earth

  Science · 2022 · 10.1126/science.abj8624

• The ESA Hera Mission: Detailed Characterization of the DART Impact Outcome and of the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos

  The Planetary Science Journal · 2022 · 10.3847/psj/ac6f52

• Samples returned from the asteroid Ryugu are similar to Ivuna-type carbonaceous meteorites

  Science · 2022 · https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn7850

• The dynamic geophysical environment of (101955) Bennu based on OSIRIS-REx measurements

  Nature Astronomy · 2019 · 10.1038/s41550-019-0721-3

• The operational environment and rotational acceleration of asteroid (101955) Bennu from OSIRIS-REx observations

  Nature Communications · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09213-x

• The unexpected surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu

  Nature · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-019-1033-6

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

  Nature Geoscience · 2019 · 10.1038/s41561-019-0326-6

• Episodes of particle ejection from the surface of the active asteroid (101955) Bennu

  Science · 2019 · 10.1126/science.aay3544

• Evidence for widespread hydrated minerals on asteroid (101955) Bennu

  Nature Astronomy · 2019 · https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0722-2

• OCAMS: The OSIRIS-REx Camera Suite

  Space Science Reviews · 2018 · 10.1007/s11214-017-0460-7

• The OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft and the Touch-and-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism (TAGSAM)

  Space Science Reviews · 2018 · 10.1007/s11214-018-0521-6

• OSIRIS-REx: Sample Return from Asteroid (101955) Bennu

  Space Science Reviews · 2017 · https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-017-0405-1

• The OSIRIS‐REx target asteroid (101955) Bennu: Constraints on its physical, geological, and dynamical nature from astronomical observations

  Meteoritics and Planetary Science · 2014 · 10.1111/maps.12353

• Orbit and bulk density of the OSIRIS-REx target Asteroid (101955) Bennu

  Icarus · 2014 · 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.02.020

• In search of the source of asteroid (101955) Bennu: Applications of the stochastic YORP model

  Icarus · 2014 · 10.1016/j.icarus.2014.09.046

• Shape model and surface properties of the OSIRIS-REx target Asteroid (101955) Bennu from radar and lightcurve observations

  Icarus · 2013 · 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.05.028

• Introducing the Eulalia and new Polana asteroid families: Re-assessing primitive asteroid families in the inner Main Belt

  Icarus · 2013 · 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.03.005

• Asteroid (101955) 1999 RQ36: Spectroscopy from 0.4 to 2.4μm and meteorite analogs

  Icarus · 2011 · 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.08.021

• The formation and alteration of the Renazzo-like carbonaceous chondrites I: Implications of bulk-oxygen isotopic composition

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2010 · 10.1016/j.gca.2010.09.028

• A radical pathway for organic phosphorylation during schreibersite corrosion with implications for the origin of life

  Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta · 2007 · 10.1016/j.gca.2006.12.018

• Supernova Olivine from Cometary Dust

  Science · 2005 · 10.1126/science.1109602

• Aqueous Corrosion of Phosphide Minerals from Iron Meteorites: A Highly Reactive Source of Prebiotic Phosphorus on the Surface of the Early Earth

  Astrobiology · 2005 · 10.1089/ast.2005.5.515

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