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Reflectance spectroscopy and asteroid surface mineralogy
Michael James Gaffey, Jeffrey F. Bell, D. P. Cruikshank
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Abstract
Information available from reflectance spectroscopy on the surface mineralogy of asteroids is discussed. Current spectral interpretive procedures used in the investigations of asteroid mineralogy are described. Present understanding of the nature and history of asteroids is discussed together with some still unresolved issues such as the source of ordinary chondrites.