Asteroid surface materials from reflectance spectroscopy: A review

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Asteroids, Minerals, Spectral Reflectance, Spectrum Analysis, Chondrites, Earth Surface, Meteoroids

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Mineral assemblages have been identified on asteroid surfaces which are comparable to most known meteorite types or which have undergone the types of processes (e.g. melting and differentiation) necessary to produce the meteoritic assemblages. The ordinary chondrites, which dominate the meteoritic flux reaching the earth's surface, are very rare or absent on Main Belt asteroids but appear common on the small asteroids which approach or cross the orbit of the Earth. The present interpretations of asteroidal spectra are not yet quantitative enough to permit the evaluation of specific asteroids as the sources' bodies of particular meteorite specimens in terrestrial collections.

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