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            <h1> About the PDS Asteroid/Dust Subnode </h1>
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            <p>
            The Asteroid/Dust Subnode of the Planetary Data System is located at the
            Planetary Science Institute.  Along with the Comet Subnode, located at the
            University of Maryland, it is a part of the Small Bodies Node, a discipline
            node of PDS.
            The Asteroid/Dust Subnode is responsible for the archiving of both NASA
            mission data and groundbased data on asteroids and interplanetary dust.

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            Asteroid data archived so far include the data from the Dawn mission on
            the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, the Hayabusa mission to the asteroid
            Itokawa, the NEAR mission to the
            asteroid Eros, the IRAS Minor Planet Survey, asteroid spectra, lightcurves,
            polarimetry, and radar data, as well as asteroid family classifications,
            albedos, proper elements, and many others.  Archived dust data
            include those from the LADEE, Cassini, Galileo, Ulysses, and IRAS missions.

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            The Asteroid/Dust subnode is leading the archiving for
            the sample return mission OSIRIS-REx to the asteroid
             101955 Bennu, the Haybusa 2 mission to asteroid 162173 Ryugu, and the
            Psyche mission to the asteroid 16 Psyche.

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            Researchers around the world contribute their data to the
            PDS asteroid and dust data archives, and receive a citable reference for their
            data set as well as the opportunity to preserve their data for the
            future and to make them more available to the community.  We have developed
            the On-Line Archiving Facility (OLAF) to make it easier for researchers to
            archive their data into PDS.

            <h3> Personnel </h3>

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                <li> <a href="http://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/drd">Dr. Don Davis</a>
                <li> <a href="http://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/mdrum">Mike Drum</a>
                <li> <a href="http://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/ckingston">Conor Kingston</a>
                <li> <a href="http://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/mueller">Dr. Beatrice Mueller</a>
                <li> <a href="http://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/klopez">Kristina Lopez</a>
                <li> <a href="http://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/neese">Dr. Carol Neese</a>
                <li> <a href="http://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/epalmer">Dr. Eric Palmer</a>
                <li> <a href="http://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/jstone">Jesse Stone</a>
                <li> <a href="http://www.psi.edu/about/staffpage/sykes">Dr. Mark Sykes</a>
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