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Oct 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010dps....42.5306b&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #42, #53.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.1073
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We have conducted a radar-driven observational campaign of 22 main-belt asteroids (MBAs) focused on Bus-DeMeo Xc- and Xk-type objects (Tholen X and M class asteroids) using the Arecibo radar and NASA Infrared Telescope Facilities (IRTF). Sixteen of our targets were near-simultaneously observed with radar. We find that most of the highest metal-content asteroids, as suggested by radar, tend to exhibit silicate absorption features at both 0.9 and 1.9 microns, and the lowest metal-content asteroids tend to exhibit either no bands or only the 0.9 microns band. Eleven of the asteroids were observed at several rotational longitudes in the near-infrared and significant variations in continuum slope were found for nine in the spectral regions 1.1-1.45 microns and 1.6-2.3 microns. Compositional evidence is derived from our target asteroid spectra using two different methods: 1) a Chi-squared search for spectral matches in the RELAB database, and 2) parametric comparisons with meteorites. We find that for four of the seven asteroids with the highest iron abundances, our spectral results are consistent with each other and with the radar evidence pointing to an iron meteorite composition (16 Psyche, 216 Kleopatra, 347 Pariana, and 779 Nina). Four asteroids have radar analogs consistent with either our parametric comparison or our RELAB analog type (21 Lutetia, 135 Hertha, 497 Iva, and 758 Mancunia ). The remaining eight asteroids (22 Kalliope, 97 Klotho, 110 Lydia, 129 Antigone, 224 Oceana, 678 Fredegundis, 771 Libera, and 785 Zwetana) have ambiguous compositional interpretations when comparing the spectral analogs to the radar analogs.
Bell Maureen
Bus Schelte J.
Clark Beth Ellen
Cloutis Edward A.
Fornasier Sonia
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