Evolution of the inner asteroid belt: Paradigms and paradoxes from spectral studies

Details Evolution of the inner asteroid belt: Paradigms and paradoxes from spectral studies Evolution of the inner asteroid belt: Paradigms and paradoxes from spectral studies

May 1987

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1987pggp.rept...80g&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Geology and Geophysics Program, 1986 p 80 (SEE N87-23341 16-91)

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Geophysics

Abundance, Asteroid Belts, Chemical Composition, Spectrum Analysis, Heating, Infrared Spectra, Minerals, Protoplanets, Spectral Resolution, Visible Spectrum

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Recent years have witnessed a significant increase in the sophistication of asteroidal surface material characterizations derived from spectral data. An extensive data base of moderate to high spectral resolution, visible and near-infrared asteroid spectra is now available. Interpretive methodologies and calibrations were developed to determine phase abundance and composition in olivine-pyroxene assemblages and to estimate NiFe metal abundance from such spectra. A modified version of the asteroid classifications system more closely parallels the mineralogic variations of the major inner belt asteroid types. These improvements permit several general conclusions to be drawn concerning the nature of inner belt objects; their history, and that of the inner solar system; and the relationship between the asteroids and meteorites. Essentially all large belt asteroids have or are fragments of parent bodies which have undergone strong post-accretionary heating, varying degrees of melting and magmatic differentiation, and subsequent collisional disruption. These asteroids show a systematic, but not yet well characterized, mineralogic variation with semi-major axis. This suggests that the S-type asteroid families represent relatively recent collisions onto the cores of previously disrupted parent bodies.

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