Relating size and spectral reflectance properties of S-type asteroids
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Author(s)
Malcom, Lindsey Ellen, S.B. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Advisor(s)
Richard P. Binzel.
Date Issued
2001
Publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
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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Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 2001.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-48).
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Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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