Asteroid 6 Hebe: Spectral Evaluation of the Prime Large Mainbelt Ordinary Chondrite Parent Body Candidate with Implications from Space Weathering of Gaspra and the Ida-Dactyl System

Details Asteroid 6 Hebe: Spectral Evaluation of the Prime Large Mainbelt Ordinary Chondrite Parent Body Candidate with Implications from Space Weathering of Gaspra and the Ida-Dactyl System Asteroid 6 Hebe: Spectral Evaluation of the Prime Large Mainbelt Ordinary Chondrite Parent Body Candidate with Implications from Space Weathering of Gaspra and the Ida-Dactyl System

Mar 1996

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Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 391

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Asteroids, Chondrites: Ordinary, Meteorites: Parent Body, Spectra: Reflectance, Weathering: Space

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No large mainbelt asteroid has yet been confirmed as an ordinary chondrite parent body. A number of plausible candidates have been identified based on dynamical considerations and/or spectral evidence. The fifth largest S-asteroid, 6 Hebe, is the best current candidate for one of the long sought large mainbelt ordinary chondrite parent bodies. Its proximity to the chaotic zones associated with both the 3:1 proper motion and the nu(sub)6 (or g=g(sub)6) secular resonance "escape hatches" should make Hebe a major mainbelt contributor to the terrestrial meteorite flux. Hebe also exhibits a surface assemblage (subtype S(IV), the only subgroup among the S-asteroids that might include ordinary chondrite parent bodies) which allows (or more precisely, does not exclude) an ordinary chondrite affinity. An analysis of the rotational variations of spectra obtained in June 1979 and February 1989 provide a sophisticated test of whether or not Hebe is a viable ordinary chondrite parent body. If the rotational spectral variations of Hebe are consistent with an undifferentiated silicate assemblage, there still remains the mismatch in the overall spectral slope and band intensities. It has been suggested that the Gaspra and Ida-Dactyl encounters establish that space weathering causes this discrepancy. However, there are several inconsistencies in this simple picture which suggest that while the presence of a space weathering process on Ida and Gaspra appears well established, there still remains considerable uncertainty concerning its nature and ability to spectrally modify ordinary chondrites to match the slope and band depths of S-asteroids.

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