Relating size and spectral reflectance properties of S-type asteroids

The spectral slopes of 701 S-type asteroids have been statistically shown to depend on asteroid size. The spectral reflectance data were taken during the second phase of the Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey. It was concluded that larger S-type asteroids have a higher spectral slope than smaller S-type asteroids, implying that S-type asteroids are likely to be undergoing a time-dependent surface alteration process, known as space weathering.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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2001

Author dc:creator

• Malcom, Lindsey Ellen, S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Richard P. Binzel.

• Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/114100

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/114100