Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986plas.rept...71b&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington Reports of Planetary Astronomy, 1985 p 71-72 (SEE N87-12407 03-89)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Asteroids, Infrared Spectra, Meteorites, Planetary Composition, Planetary Surfaces, Stellar Spectrophotometry, Carbonaceous Materials, Comet Rendezvous Asteroid Flyby Mission, Mineralogy, Olivine, Pyroxenes, Spectrum Analysis
Scientific paper
The first comprehensive spectrophotometric survey in the near-infrared (0.8 to 2.5 microns) was carried out with the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility and special filters optimized for spectroscopy of solid surfaces. About 105 asteroids have been observed (in 52 photometric passbands) to date. These spectra provide a much improved database for determining the mineralogy of the various asteroid spectral classes previously defined on the basis of visible (0.3 to 1.0 micron) data. Preliminary results from analysis of these spectra include: (1)Class "A" asteroids are dominated by olivine and correspond to the rare brachinite meteorites; (2)Class "S" asteroids have highly variable olivine/pyroxene ratios inconsistent with chondritic compositions; (3)Classes "P" and "D" are apparently "ultracarbonacous" material which extends the known range of chondrites to lower condensation temperatures; (4)The distribution of spectral types shows that the asteroids were heated by a mechanism whose intensity declined rapidly with solar distance; and (5)Spectra of the proposed flyby targets for CRAF were used to evaluate the results obtainable from this mission.
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