Vesta's UV lightcurve: hemispheric variationin brightness and spectral reversal

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Mar 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003icar..162....1h&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 162, Issue 1, p. 1-9.

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Asteroids, Vesta, Ultraviolet Observations, Surfaces, Asteroids

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Spectra of asteroid 4 Vesta obtained in October 1990 with the International Ultraviolet Explorer are reanalyzed and reinterpreted. A large portion of the eastern hemisphere (based on the prime meridian definition of is darker at UV wavelengths than much of the western hemisphere. The UV lightcurve is in contrast with the visible lightcurve, which shows that the eastern hemisphere is brighter than the western. These IUE spectra of Vesta thus may be evidence for the ``spectral reversal,'' first seen on the Moon by Apollo 17, where the visibly brighter lunar highlands are darker than the maria at far-UV wavelengths. This effect was linked to space weathering when it was noted that the spectral reversal appears in the laboratory spectra of lunar soils but not powdered lunar rocks.
We investigate Vesta's UV lightcurve and spectral reversal, and its possible connection with space weathering. The addition to grain coatings of small amounts of submicroscopic iron (SMFe) through vapor deposition causes drastic spectral changes at UV-visible wavelengths , while the longer wavelength spectrum remains largely unaffected. Other laboratory results (e.g., indicate that the UV-visible wavelength range is affected by simulated weathering processes in a manner similar to what is seen on Vesta. It is likely that Vesta has experienced relatively minor amounts of space weathering, as indicated by the spectral reversal, along with the subtle visible-near infrared weathering effects (e.g., .

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