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Jun 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006aas...208.1102g&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 208, #11.02; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.90
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Reflectance spectra of five near earth asteroids (3908, 7753, 22771, 54509 and 66251) were obtained in the near infrared (.8 - 2.5 µm) using the NASA IRTF equipped with the SpEX infrared spectrometer at Mauna Kea in 2004 and 2005. The data obtained was coupled with spectral data in the visible wavelengths from the SMASS database [2, 3, 4, and 5] and analyzed using the Modified Gaussian Model (MGM). The expected absorption bands at 1 and 2 µm for olivines and pyroxenes were observed in a number of the asteroid spectra. However, we also found that there were asteroid reflectance spectra that were very featureless and the absorption bands that were present (if any) were very weak. Space weathering has been given by others [1} as a possible explanation for the lack of absorption features in the spectra of asteroids. This space weathering has been described to be the possible result of the processes of sputtering erosion as a result of the impacts and implantations, radiation and cosmic ray effects. Asteroid 1989 ML (10302) was also studied using SMASS observation data in the visible wavelengths. The reflectance spectra was compared to the spectra of various types of meteorites in an attempt find a match that would aid in the classification of 1989 MLReferences: [1] B. Hapke (2001) J. Geophys. Res. 106, 10039-10073; [2] J.T. Rayner et al. (2003) PASP 115, 362; [3] R.P. Binzel et al. (2004) Icarus 170, 259-294; [4] R.P. Binzel et al. (2004) Meteoritics and Planetary Science 39, 354-366; [5] T.H. Burbine et al. (2002) Icarus 159, 468-499
Gietzen Katherine M.
Lacy Claud H.
Rivkin Andrew S.
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