Research & Publications

My research background spans observational astronomy, thermophysical modelling, and small body characterisation — all directly relevant to commercial space domain awareness. Full list on Google Scholar and ORCiD.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

• 2025
  The Noritic mineralogy of V- and S-type objects and the links with asteroid (4) Vesta Rider-Stokes, B. G., Wong, A. Y. C., Burbine, T. H., MacLennan, E., Greenwood, R. C., Jackson, S. L., Anand, M., White, L. F., & Grady, M. M. Icarus, 116844.
• 2025
  Insights into pyroxene-dominated surfaces and implications for ongoing space exploration missions Rider-Stokes, B. G., Branagan-Harris, E., Markus, K., Snape, J. F., Jackson, S. L., Russell, S. S., Greenwood, R. C., Burbine, T. H., Whitehouse, M. J., & Rothery, D. A. Icarus, 441, 116713.
• 2025
  Rapid protoplanet formation in the outer Solar System recorded in a dunite from the carbonaceous chondrite reservoir Rider-Stokes, B. G., Zhao, X., Jackson, S. L., Suttle, M. D., Franchi, I. A., White, L. F., Greenwood, R. C., Whitehouse, M. J., Riches, L., & Anand, M. Communications Earth & Environment, 6(1), 524.
• 2025
  The mystery of the missing mantle problem and insights from spectroscopy Rider-Stokes, B. G., Jackson, S. L., Burbine, T. H., Greenwood, R. C., MacLennan, E. M., White, L. F., Russell, S. S., Anand, M., & Grady, M. M. Icarus, 432, 116506.
• 2025
  Remnants of a lost planetesimal: Searching for the Angrite parent body Rider-Stokes, B. G., Jackson, S. L., Burbine, T. H., White, L. F., Greenwood, R. C., MacLennan, E. M., Anand, M., Yamaguchi, A., & Grady, M. M. Icarus, 429, 116429.
• 2025
  Thermal-IR Observations of (152830) Dinkinesh during the Lucy Mission Flyby Jackson, S. L., Emery, J. P., Rozitis, B., Christensen, P. R., Spencer, J. R., Mottola, S., Hamilton, V. E., Howett, C. J. A., Marchi, S., Noll, K. S., & Levison, H. L. The Planetary Science Journal, 6(7), 168.
• 2024
  The vapour plume resulting from the DART impact on Dimorphos Fitzsimmons, A., Denneau, L., Erasmus, N., Föhring, D., Jackson, S. L., Lister, T., Micheli, M., Opitom, C., Petrescu, E., & Raducan, S. D. The Planetary Science Journal.
• 2024
  Thermophysical modelling of eclipse and occultation events in binary asteroid systems Jackson, S. L. & Rozitis, B. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 534(3), 1827–1843.
• 2024
  Evidence against water delivery by impacts within 10 million years of planetesimal formation Rider-Stokes, B. G., Stephant, A., Anand, M., Franchi, I. A., Zhao, X., White, L. F., Yamaguchi, A., Greenwood, R. C., & Jackson, S. L. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 642, 118860.
• 2024
  Pre-impact thermophysical properties and the Yarkovsky effect of NASA DART target (65803) Didymos 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. The Planetary Science Journal, 5(3), 66.
• 2024
  Achievement of the planetary defense investigations of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission Chabot, N. L. + 128 co-authors incl. Jackson, S. L. The Planetary Science Journal, 5(2), 49. ↗ Access
• 2023
  Physical modelling of near-Earth asteroid (23187) 2000 PN9 with ground-based optical and radar observations Dover, L., Lowry, S. C., Rożek, A., Rozitis, B., Jackson, S. L., Zegmott, T., Krugly, Yu. N., Belskaya, I. N., Fitzsimmons, A., & Green, S. F. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 525(3), 4581–4595. ↗ Access
• 2022
  The effect of aspect changes on near-Earth asteroid phase curves Jackson, S. L., Rozitis, B., Dover, L. R., Green, S. F., Kolb, U. C., Andrews, A. E., & Lowry, S. C. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 513(2), 3076–3089. ↗ Access
• 2021
  Asteroid photometry with PIRATE: Optimizations and techniques for small-aperture telescopes Jackson, S. L., Kolb, U. C., & Green, S. F. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 133(1025), 075003. ↗ Access

PhD Research

My doctoral work at The Open University focused on characterising asteroid spin and surface properties using small-aperture robotic telescopes. I collected over 1,000 hours of observations with the OpenScience Observatories to determine physical properties of 18 asteroids, and investigated the viewing geometry dependence of near-Earth asteroid phase curves.

The thesis is available open access via the Open Research Online repository.

Other

• 2020
  Revealing the surface of an asteroid using robotic telescopes Jackson, S. L. OpenLearn, The Open University. ↗ Access