Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of 12 Outer Main Belt Asteroids

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Oct 2010

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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #42, #53.09; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.1073

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We have begun a project to quantify the degree of aqueous alteration in CM carbonaceous chondrites, obtain spectra of these chondrites, and measure spectra of possibly related outer Main Belt asteroids in order to explore the nature of aqueous alteration on these asteroids. In this first stage of the project, we will present the near-infrared (NIR) spectra of 12 outer Main Belt asteroids (2.59 < a < 3.96 AU). The asteroids include, 10 Hygiea, 76 Friea, 91 Aegina, 107 Camila, 104 Klymene, 121 Hemione, 153 Hilda, 308 Polyxo, 334 Chicago, 361 Bononia, 401 Ottilia, and 790 Pretoria. We collected the spectra of these asteroids between April 2009 and April 2010, using the long wavelength cross-dispersed (LXD) mode (1.9-4.1-µm) of the SpeX spectrograph/imager at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF). We also observed some of these asteroids with the prism mode (0.8-2.5-µm). For data reduction, we used Spextool, a set of Interactive Data Language routines provided by the IRTF.
Except for 91 Aegina, all observed asteroids exhibit an absorption feature near 3-µm, which is attributed to hydrated minerals and/or H2O ice. The hydrated mineral features on these asteroids show two different band shapes, weak "rounded” H2O-like absorption band and deeper "checkmark” OH-like absorption band. The former band shape is much more common in our sample than the latter band shape.

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