FETICK , Romain

Large (D>100km) asteroids are the most direct remnants of the building blocks of planets. (2) Pallas is the third largest asteroid and the parent body of a small collisional family. Its spectral properties indicate a B-type surface, meaning Pallas is most likely linked to carbonaceous chondrite meteorites. Disc-resolved images have revealed a...

Asteroid (16) Psyche is the target of the NASA Psyche mission. It is considered as one of the few main-belt bodies that could be an exposed proto-planetary metallic core and that would thus be related to iron meteorites. Such association is however challenged by both its near- and mid-infrared spectral properties (e.g. Hardersen et al. Icarus...