期刊
ICARUS
卷 218, 期 1, 页码 196-206出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.11.024
关键词
Spectroscopy; Asteroids, Composition; Meteorites
资金
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [AYA 2009-08011]
- Junta de Andalucia research [PE07-TIC2744]
- CNPq
- FAPESP
- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [AYA 2008-06202-C03-02]
- NASA
- National Science Foundation
We present near-infrared spectra of 23 B-type asteroids obtained with the NICS camera-spectrograph at the 3.56 m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo. We also compile additional visible and near-infrared spectra of another 22 B-type asteroids from the literature. A total of 45 B-types are analyzed. No significant trends in orbital properties of our sample were detected when compared with all known B-types and all known asteroids. The reflectance spectra of the asteroids in the 0.8-2.5 mu m range show a continuous shape variation, from a monotonic negative (blue) slope to a positive (red) slope. This continuous spectral trend is filling the gap between the two main groups of B-types published by Clark et al. ([2010]. J. Geophys. Res., 115, 6005-6027). We found no clear correlations between the spectral slope and the asteroids' sizes or heliocentric distances. We apply a clustering technique to reduce the volume of data to six optimized average spectra or centroids, representative of the whole sample. These centroids are then compared against meteorite spectra from the RELAB database. We found carbonaceous chondrites as the best meteorite analogs for the six centroids. There is a progressive change in analogs that correlates with the spectral slope: from CM2 chondrites (water-rich, aqueously altered) for the reddest centroid, to CK4 chondrites (dry, heated/thermally altered) for the bluest one. (C) 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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