Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988plas.rept..138v&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Astronomy, p 138-136 (SEE N89-16624 08-89)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Albedo, Asteroids, Classifications, Color, Identifying, Infrared Photometry, Reflectance, Accuracy, Meteorites, Minerals, Radiometers
Scientific paper
Infrared photometry at 1.2, 1.6 and 2.2 micrometer provides a relatively rapid and accurate method for the classification of asteroids and is important for comparison with laboratory measurements of meteorites and other possible compositional analogues. Extension beyond the visual is espicially useful for minerals which have strong characteristic infrared colors such as olivine in the A class asteroids. Radiometry at long infrared wavelengths is important for deriving basic physical parameters (via thermal models) such as size and albedo which in turn enables the conversion of relative colors to absolute reflectances. In particular, albedos are the only way to distinguish among the otherwise ambiguous E, M and P classes of asteroids. Infrared observations of 15 asteroids were made at the NASA infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF) on Mauna Kea in 1987. Researchers completed the analysis of 22 Aten, Apollo and Amor asteroids. Results include albedos and diameters for these objects as well as the identification of the first known class M and Class E near-Earth asteroids. The standard thermal model appears to be inadequate for some of these small asteroids because of their coarse regolith, so researchers constructed a rotating thermal model for such asteroids. They have identified a subtle systematic difference between the sub-populations of large and small IRAS asteroids as well as several anomalous objects.
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