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Authors and Affiliations

Alyssa Rose Rhoden¹ · Sierra N. Ferguson¹ · William Bottke¹ · Julie C. Castillo-Rogez² · Emily Martin³ · Michael Bland⁴ · Michelle Kirchoff¹ · Marco Zannoni⁵ ID · Nicolas Rambaux⁶ · Julien Salmon¹

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M. Zannoni
m.zannoni@unibo.it

1 Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302, USA

2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

3 Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA

4 U.S. Geological Survey, Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff AZ, USA

5 Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Forlì, Italy

6 IMCCE, CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, PSL Université, Sorbonne Université, Université de Lille 1, UMR 8028 du CNRS, 77 Denfert-Rochereau, 75014 Paris, France