Compositional studies of primitive asteroids

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Oct 1991

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991plas.rept..186v&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington, Reports of Planetary Astronomy, 1991 p 186 (SEE N92-12792 03-89)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Asteroids, Chemical Composition, Spectrum Analysis, Distance, Heating, Solar System, Surface Water

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Primitive asteroids in the solar system (C, P, D class and associated subclasses) are believed to have undergone less thermal processing compared with the differential (S class) asteroids. Telescopic spectra of C class asteroids show effects of aqueous alteration products produced when heating of the asteroids was sufficient to melt surface water, but not strong enough to produce differentiation. Spectrum analysis of P and D class asteroids suggests that aqueous alteration terminated in the outer belt and did not operate at the distance of Jupiter's orbit.

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