Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jan 2005
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005icar..173..132n&link_type=abstract
Icarus, Volume 173, Issue 1, p. 132-152.
Computer Science
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Asteroids, Composition, Surfaces, Asteroids, Regoliths
Scientific paper
By studying color variations between young and old asteroid families we find evidence for processes that modify colors of asteroids over time. We show that colors of aging surfaces of S-type asteroids become increasingly `redder' and measure the rate of these spectral changes. We estimate that the mean spectral slope between 0.35 and 0.9 μm increases with time t (given in My) as ≈0.01 μm-1×log10t. This empirical fit is valid only for 2.5≲t≲3000 My (the time interval where we have data) and for the mean spectral slope determined from wide-wavelength filter photometry obtained by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. We also find that Gy-old terrains of S-type asteroids reflect about 15% more light at ˜1-μm wavelengths than an ˜5-My-old S-type asteroid surface when the flux is normalized by the reflected light at 0.55 μm. We attribute these effects to space weathering. This result has important implications for asteroid geology and the origin of meteorites that reach the Earth. Our results also suggest that surfaces of C-type asteroids exhibit color alterations opposite to those of the S-type asteroids.
Ivezic Zeljko
Jedicke Robert
Nesvorný David
Whiteley Robert J.
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