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selected publications*

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  • Al Asad, M. and Lau, H. C. P.  (2024) “Coupled Fates of Earth’s Mantle and Core: Early Sluggish-Lid Tectonics and a Long-lived Geodynamo Consequences of a coupled core-mantle evolution”. Science Advances, 10(31), eadp1991.

  • Al Asad, M., Lau, H. C. P., Crowley, J. W., & Lenardic, A. (2023). “Modes of mantle convection, their stability, and what controls their existence”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, 128, e2023JB027274.

  • Jawin, E. R., Ballouz, R. L., Ryan, A. J., Kaplan, H. H., McCoy, T. J., Al Asad, M. M., ... & Keller, L. P. (2023). “Boulder Diversity in the Nightingale Region of Asteroid (101955) Bennu and Predictions for Physical Properties of theOSIRIS-REx Sample”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 128(12), e2023JE008019.

  •  Ernst, C. M., Daly, R. T., Gaskell, R.W., Barnouin, O. S., Nair, H., Hyatt, B. A., ... & Hoch, K. K. (2023). “High-resolution shape models of Phobos and Deimos from stereophotoclinometry”. Earth, Planets and Space, 75(1), 103.

  • Delbo, M., Walsh, K. J., Matonti, C., Wilkerson, J., Pajola, M., Al Asad, M. M., ... & Lauretta, D. S. (2022). “Alignment of fractures on Bennu’s boulders indicative of rapid asteroid surface evolution”. Nature Geoscience, 15(6), 453-457.

  • Al Asad, M. M., Johnson, C. L., & Philpott, L. C. (2021). “Bifurcated current sheets in Mercury’s magnetotail: Observations and implications”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 126, e2021JA029417.

  • Al Asad, M. M., Philpott, L. C., Johnson, C. L., Barnouin, O. S., Palmer, E., Weirich, J. R., ... & Lauretta, D. S. (2021). “Validation of stereophotoclinometric shape models of asteroid (101955) Bennu during the OSIRIS-REx mission”. The Planetary Science Journal, 2(2), 82.

  • DellaGiustina, D. N., Kaplan, H. H., Simon, A. A., Bottke, W. F., Avdellidou, C., Delbo, M., ... & Lauretta, D. S. (2021). “Exogenic basalt on asteroid (101955) Bennu”. Nature Astronomy, 5(1), 31-38.

  • DellaGiustina, D. N., Burke, K. N., Walsh, K. J., Smith, P. H., Golish, D. R., Bierhaus, E. B., ... & Lauretta, D. S. (2020). “Variations in color and reflectance on the surface of asteroid (101955) Bennu”. Science, 370(6517), eabc3660.

  • Daly, M. G., Barnouin, O. S., Seabrook, J. A., Roberts, J., Dickinson, C., Walsh, K. J., ... & Lauretta, D. S. (2020) “Hemispherical differences in the shape and topography of asteroid (101955) Bennu”. Science Advances, 6(41), eabd3649.

  • Ballouz, R. L., Walsh, K. J., Barnouin, O. S., DellaGiustina, D. N., Al Asad, M., Jawin, E. R., ... & Lauretta, D. S. (2020): “Bennu’s near-Earth lifetime of 1.75 million years inferred from craters on its boulders”. Nature, 587(7833), 205-209.

  • Lauretta, D. S., Hergenrother, C. W., Chesley, S. R., Leonard, J. M., Pelgrift, J. Y., Adam, C. D., ... & Wolner, C. W. V. (2019). “Episodes of particle ejection from the surface of the active asteroid (101955) Bennu”. Science, 366(6470), eaay3544.

  • Barnouin, O. S., Daly, M. G., Palmer, E. E., Johnson, C. L., Gaskell, R. W., Al Asad, M., ... & Lauretta, D. S. (2020). “Digital terrain mapping by the OSIRIS-REx mission”. Planetary and Space Science, 180, 104764.

  • Winslow, R. M., Lugaz, N., Philpott, L., Farrugia, C. J., Johnson, C. L., Anderson, B. J., ... & Al Asad, M. (2020).“ Observations of extreme ICME ram pressure compressing Mercury’s dayside magnetosphere to the surface”. The Astrophysical Journal, 889(2), 184.

  • Barnouin, O. S., Daly, M. G., Palmer, E. E., Gaskell, R. W., Weirich, J. R., Johnson, C. L., ... & Lauretta, D. S. (2019). “Shape of (101955) Bennu indicative of a rubble pile with internal stiffness”. Nature geoscience, 12(4), 247-252.

  • Korth, H., Tsyganenko, N. A., Johnson, C. L., Philpott, L. C., Anderson, B. J., Al Asad, M. M., ... & McNutt Jr, R. L. (2015). “Modular model for Mercury’s magnetospheric magnetic field confined within the average observed magnetopause”. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 120(6), 4503-4518.

  • Johnson, C. L., Purucker, M. E., Korth, H., Anderson, B. J., Winslow, R. M., Al Asad, M. M., ... & Solomon, S. C. (2012). MESSENGER observations of Mercury’s magnetic field structure. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 117(E12).

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