Simulating The Surface Morphology Of A Carbonaceous Chondrite Asteroid

• Main Authors: Covey, S. D., Lewis, J. S., Metzger, P. T., Britt, D. T., Wiggins, S. E.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: STARS 2016
• Subjects: Tagish; Tagish Lake
• Online Access: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2015/4204

One portion of our NASA contract "Task-Specific Asteroid Simulants for Ground Testing" was replicating the expected textures and morphology of asteroid materials. This paper reports preliminary results and procedures for the production of a prototype simulant. An asteroid analogue starts w...