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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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SUMMARY:The participation of the IAC Solar System group in the OSIRIS-REx m
 ission
DESCRIPTION:The participation of the IAC Solar System group in the OSIRIS-R
 Ex mission\nDr. Javier Licandro\n\nThe IAC Solar System group has been coo
 perating with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission since 2011 when I became mem
 ber of its Science Team. In 2015 we came to an agreement to be members of 
 the Image Processing Working Group (IPWG) to perform two main tasks: produ
 ce and analyze the Color-ratio Maps and participate in the in-flight calib
 ration of the cameras (OCAMS). Actually 5 members of our group are partici
 pating in the science of the mission.\nOSIRIS-REx was launched in 2016 and
  will visit the asteroid Bennu. It will completely characterize Bennu duri
 ng 2018-2019, and took a sample of material from the surface that will bri
 ng to Earth for detailed study in 2023. Bennu is the primitive near-Earth 
 asteroid more accessible and is also one of the Potentially Hazardous aste
 roids most likely to collide with Earth. It is well stablished that primit
 ive class asteroids are the parents of carbonaceous chondrite meteorites, 
 the meteorites with the most primitive known composition. Their primitive 
 nature and their water and complex organics content make their study 
 have a high cosmogonic and astrobiological interest\nWith the aim of suppo
 rting the science return of OSIRIS-REx and other two missions (JAXA’
 s Hayabusa II and ESA’s MarcoPolo-R), we started in 2010 our PRIMiti
 ve Asteroids Spectroscopic Survey (PRIMASS). As part of the PRIMASS projec
 t, we are obtaining visible and near infrared spectra of the members of th
 e primitive collisional families and dynamical groups of the main asteroid
  belt. \nIn this seminar I will present OSIRIS-REx mission and summar
 ize the research activities of the IAC Solar System group, in particular t
 hose related with our participation in the OSIRIS-REx mission: (1) the pre
 paration for the analysis of OCAMS images using Dawn images of Ceres; (2) 
 the spectroscopic characterization of the inner main belt primitive astero
 ids families from which Bennu likely came from.
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