Differentiated asteroids are rare in the main asteroid belt despite evidence for ˜100 distinct differentiated bodies in the meteorite record. We have sought to understand why so few main belt asteroids differentiated and where those differentiated bodies or fragments reside. Using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to search for a needle in a...
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October 12, 2018 (v1)Conference paperUploaded on: December 4, 2022
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October 4, 2009 (v1)Conference paper
Space weathering to redden asteroid surfaces by the solar wind appears to be a very rapid (
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2022 (v1)Journal article
We report 491 new near-infrared spectroscopic measurements of 420 near-Earth objects (NEOs) collected on the NASA InfraRed Telescope Facility as part of the MIT-Hawaii NEO Spectroscopic Survey. These measurements were combined with previously published data from Binzel et al. and bias-corrected to derive the intrinsic compositional distribution...
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