 on Mauna Kea, Hawai’i, show that its surface is covered with water/hydroxyl. These volatiles are thought to have been delivered via carbonaceous chondrite impactors or by solar wind interacting with the surface. (Movie Credit: James Richardson (PSI)/Shepard et al. 2016)
“Detection of Water and/or Hydroxyl on Asteroid (16) Psyche,” Driss Takir, Vishnu Reddy et al., 2016, Astronomical Journal [http://aj.aas.org, preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.00802].
Reddy’s research on Psyche is funded by NASA’s Planetary Science Division’s Planetary Geology and Geophysics program.
The joint 48th meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) and 11th European Planetary Science Congress (EPSC) in Pasadena, California, is second time DPS and EPSC have been joined into one meeting. The goal of the joint meeting is to strengthen international scientific collaboration in all areas of planetary science. This is the first time that EPSC, which provides the dissemination platform for the Europlanet 2020 Research Infrastructure, is held outside Europe. For more information, see: https://aas.org/meetings/dps48. Follow: #dpsepsc, @DPSMeeting, @europlanetmedia, and @AAS_Press on Twitter.