Investigating Main Belt asteroids with WISE/NEOWISE

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf..182m&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.182

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We present the first look at Main Belt asteroids using the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) allsky survey. Thermal modeling allows us to fit diameters for over 157, 000 Solar system objects, of which the majority were Main Belt asteroids (MBAs). Literature visible light data allow us to determine albedos for most of these objects as well. Using this data we can investigate diameter and albedo distributions of the Main Belt as a whole as well as look at correlations of albedo within asteroid families. The WISE dataset provides a unique method of determining physical properties of a large number of MBAs.

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