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Simon Green

Simon Green

Professor Of Planetary And Space Science

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Asteroid is officially named after The Open University

Asteroid is officially named after The Open University

13 Sep 2021

Academics in the School of Physical Sciences are celebrating after learning that an asteroid situated more than 126 million miles…

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  • Herique, A., Plettemeier, D., Rogez, Y., Berquin, Y., Ciarletti, V., Fa, W., Eyraud, C., Haynes, M., Heggy, E., Kechouindi, A., Kobayashi, T., Kofman, W., Laabs, M., Nolbert, D., Pettinelli, E., Pursiainen, S., Rochat, S., Schmidt, C., Virkki, A., Záplata, F., Zine, S., Abell, P., Carnelli, I., Goldberg, H., Green, S., Küppers, M., Lazzarin, M., Michel, P., Perez Lissi, F., Sugita, S. and Ulamec, S., 2026, ‘JuRa: The Juventas Radar on Hera Mission to Probe Internal Structure of Didymos and Dimorphos Asteroids’, Space Science Reviews, 222, https://oro.open.ac.uk/112372/.
  • Lazzarin, M., Michel, P., Kueppers, M., Green, S., Tortora, P., Ulamec, S., Vincent, J., Abell, P., Sugita, S. and Martino, P., 2025, ‘The ESA RAMSES Mission: Rendezvous with the Asteroid Apophis During Its Close Encounter with Earth in 2029’, in IAF Space Exploration Symposium, Held at the 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2025), 29 Sep - 3 Oct 2025, Sydney, Australia., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110685/.
  • Michel, P., Kueppers, M., Fitzsimmons, A., Green, S., Lazzarin, M., Ulamec, S., Abell, P., Sugita, S., Martino, P. and Carnelli, I., 2025, ‘The ESA Hera Mission to the Binary Asteroid (65803) Didymos: One Year After Launch’, in IAF Space Exploration Symposium, Held at the 76th International Astronautical Congress (IAC 2025), 29 Sep - 3 Oct 2025, Sydney, Australia., https://oro.open.ac.uk/110684/.
  • Michel, P., Küppers, M., Fitzsimmons, A., Green, S., Lazzarin, M., Ulamec, S., Abell, P., Sugita, S., Campo Bagatin, A., Carry, B., Charnoz, S., de León, J., Ferrari, F., Hérique, A., Jutzi, M., Karatekin, z., Kohout, T., Murdoch, N., Okada, T., Palomba, E., Pravec, P., Raducan, S., Snodgrass, C., Tortora, P., Vincent, J. and Wünnemann, K., 2025, ‘The Hera Space Mission in the Context of Small Near-Earth Asteroid Missions in the Past, Present and Future’, Space Science Reviews, 221(5), https://oro.open.ac.uk/105873/.
  • Rozitis, B., Green, S. F., Jackson, S. L., Snodgrass, C., Opitom, C., Müller, T. G., Kolb, U. C., Chesley, S. R., Daly, R. T., Thomas, C. A. and Rivkin, A. S., 2024, ‘Pre-impact Thermophysical Properties and the Yarkovsky Effect of NASA DART Target (65803) Didymos’, The Planetary Science Journal, 5(3), https://oro.open.ac.uk/96388/.
  • Chabot, N. L., Rivkin, A. S., Cheng, A. F., Barnouin, O. S., Fahnestock, E. G., Richardson, D. C., Stickle, A. M., Thomas, C. A., Ernst, C. M., Terik Daly, R., Dotto, E., Zinzi, A., Chesley, S. R., Moskovitz, N. A., Barbee, B. W., Abell, P., Agrusa, H. F., Bannister, M. T., Beccarelli, J., Bekker, D. L., Bruck Syal, M., Buratti, B. J., Busch, M. W., Campo Bagatin, A., Chatelain, J. P., Chocron, S., Collins, G. S., Conversi, L., Davison, T. M., DeCoster, M. E., Prasanna Deshapriya, J. D., Eggl, S., Espiritu, R. C., Farnham, T. L., Ferrais, M., Ferrari, F., Föhring, D., Fuentes-Muñoz, O., Gai, I., Giordano, C., Glenar, D. A., Gomez, E., Graninger, D. M., Green, S. F., Greenstreet, S., Hasselmann, P. H., Herreros, I., Hirabayashi, M., Husárik, M., Ieva, S., Ivanovski, S. L., Jackson, S. L., Jehin, E., Jutzi, M., Karatekin, O., Knight, M. M., Kolokolova, L., Kumamoto, K. M., Küppers, M., La Forgia, F., Lazzarin, M., Li, J., Lister, T. A., Lolachi, R., Lucas, M. P., Lucchetti, A., Luther, R., Makadia, R., Mazzotta Epifani, E., McMahon, J., Merisio, G., Merrill, C. C., Meyer, A. J., Michel, P., Micheli, M., Migliorini, A., Minker, K., Modenini, D., Moreno, F., Murdoch, N., Murphy, B., Naidu, S. P., Nair, H., Nakano, R., Opitom, C., Ormö, J., Michael Owen, J., Pajola, M., Palmer, E. E., Palumbo, P., Panicucci, P., Parro, L. M., Pearl, J. M., Penttilä, A., Perna, D., Petrescu, E., Pravec, P., Raducan, S. D., Ramesh, K. T., Ridden-Harper, R., Rizos, J. L., Rossi, A., Roth, N. X., Rożek, A., Rozitis, B., Ryan, E. V., Ryan, W. H., Sánchez, P., Santana-Ros, T., Scheeres, D. J., Scheirich, P., Berk Senel, C., Snodgrass, C., Soldini, S., Souami, D., Statler, T. S., Street, R., Stubbs, T. J., Sunshine, J. M., Tan, N. J., Tancredi, G., Tinsman, C. L., Tortora, P., Tusberti, F., Walker, J. D., Waller, C. D., Wünnemann, K., Zannoni, M. and Zhang, Y., 2024, ‘Achievement of the Planetary Defense Investigations of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission’, The Planetary Science Journal, 5(2), https://oro.open.ac.uk/96146/.
  • Dover, L., Lowry, S. C., Rożek, A., Rozitis, B., Jackson, S. L., Zegmott, T., Krugly, Y. N., Belskaya, I. N., Fitzsimmons, A., Green, S., Snodgrass, C., Weissman, P. R., Brozović, M., Benner, L. A. M., Busch, M. W., Ayvazian, V. R., Chiorny, V., Inasaridze, R. Y., Krugov, M., Mykhailova, S., Reva, I. and Hibbert, J., 2023, ‘Physical modelling of near-Earth asteroid (23187) 2000 PN9 with ground-based optical and radar observations’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(3), pp. 4581–4595., https://oro.open.ac.uk/92554/.
  • Donaldson, A., Kokotanekova, R., Rożek, A., Snodgrass, C., Gardener, D., Green, S. F., Masoumzadeh, N. and Robinson, J., 2023, ‘Characterizing the nucleus of comet 162P/Siding Spring using ground-based photometry’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 521(1), pp. 1518–1531., https://oro.open.ac.uk/87822/.
  • Opitom, C., Murphy, B., Snodgrass, C., Bagnulo, S., Green, S. F., Knight, M. M., de Léon, J., Li, J. and Gardener, D., 2023, ‘Morphology and spectral properties of the DART impact ejecta with VLT/MUSE’, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 671, https://oro.open.ac.uk/88608/.
  • Murphy, B. P., Opitom, C., Snodgrass, C., Knight, M. M., Li, J., Chabot, N. L., Rivkin, A. S., Green, S. F., Guetzoyan, P., Gardener, D. and de León, J., 2023, ‘VLT/MUSE Characterization of Dimorphos Ejecta from the DART Impact’, The Planetary Science Journal, 4(12), https://oro.open.ac.uk/94745/.
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