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Icarus

Volume 61, Issue 3, March 1985, Pages 355-416
Icarus

The eight-color asteroid survey: Results for 589 minor planets

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Abstract

Results are presented from reflection spectrophotometry of 589 minor planets in a photometric system using eight filter passbands ranging from 0.34- to 1.04-μm wavelength. The sampling completeness approaches or exceeds 50% of the numbered asteroids for the near-Earth objects, the Hungarias, the Nysa family, the Cybeles, the Hildas, and the Trojans. The general evolution of predominant compositional type from S to C to D with increasing heliocentric distance is evident, as is the spectral homogeneity of the Eos, Koronis, Nysa, and Themis families.

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Current address: Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96720.

2

National Research Council, Resident Research Associate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. 91109.

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