Optical colours of Near-Earth Objects

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Nov 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002esasp.500..915d&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of Asteroids, Comets, Meteors - ACM 2002. International Conference, 29 July - 2 August 2002, Berlin, Germany. Ed

Computer Science

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Near-Earth Objects, Asteroids, Colour, Photometry

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We present BVRIZ photometry of 57 Near-Earth Objects (NEOs). Our sample includes many NEOs with particularly deep 1μm pyroxene/olivine absorption bands similar to Q- or V-type asteroids and three NEOs with particularly blue colours, similar to B-type asteroids. As well as classifying the NEOs, we have investigated colour trends with size and orbit. We find that different classes of NEO tend to occupy different regions of (a,e) space. By comparing our results with model predictions, we have identified possible source regions for the different classes.

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