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. 2020 Aug 12;7(8):e2019EA000938. doi: 10.1029/2019EA000938

Table 2.

Reconstruction of the Smaller Observed Particle Ejection Events

Event date and Ejection Location (±3σ) Inertial particle velocities (m/s)
time (UTC, ±1σ) Latitude (°) Longitude (°) Local solar time Particles analyzed Min Mean Median Max
29 January 2019 Near 17.193.79+1.28
102.111.11+1.25
18:52±00:03 4 0.114 0.142 0.135 0.184
00:12:14 ± 7 s
4 February 2019 Far   32.7212.42+11.05
109.7415.44+17.60
18:2500:47+00:53
4 0.133 0.179 0.171 0.242
06:18:04 ± 67 s
5 February 2019 Near 46.6848.06+19.63
60.89111.84+98.91
17:2207:27+05:53
3 0.178 0.229 0.195 0.314
04:04:28 ± 415 s
8 February 2019 Near 40.350.65+0.71
238.661.36+1.47
12:44±00:04 3 0.359 0.404 0.420 0.435
06:29:52 ± 17 s
8 February 2019 Far 33.8913.27+8.76
309.6612.35+16.34
01:3400:46+01:00
2 0.200 0.203 0.203 0.206
20:49:32 ± 22 s
12 February 2019 Near 39.13 44.45+45.68 32.08 66.89+59.64 21:11 03:34+03:50 3 0.196 0.317 0.335 0.420
08:55:45 ± 239 s Far 23.97 61.29+60.83 125.70 67.33+67.44 03:26 03:47+03:24 0.230 0.372 0.393 0.493
19 April 2019 Near 14.5318.88+20.90
265.3477.81+50.53
18:1402:54+01:39
18 0.099 0.237 0.221 0.506
01:46:52 ± 639 s
18 June 2019 Near 16.265.83+5.61
291.246.06+7.24
17:32±00:07 7 0.411 0.702 0.564 1.585
12:54:01 ± 79 s

Note. Only near or far solution shown when one solution could be ruled out either through independent solutions from Leonard et al. (2020) or through observations of particles in front of Bennu indicating that the far solution was not plausible.