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de Leon, J.; Licandro, J.; Duffard, R.; Serra-Ricart, M.
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35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 18 - 25 July 2004, in Paris, France., p.1379
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Using the NOT, WHT and TNG telescopes located at Observatorio del Roque
de los Muchachos (Canary Islands, Spain) we have obtained low resolution
visible and near infrared spectra of more than 30 Near Earth Asteroids.
These observations are part of and observational campaign that started
on August 2002 and that also includes photometric and spectrophotometric
visible and near infrared observations in telescopes of Observatorio del
Teide, in Tenerife. This observational campaign is intended to
physically characterize NEO population and to better understand its
origin. We present a spectral and a preliminar mineralogical analysis of
the reflectance spectra of this sample of asteroids in order to
establish their taxonomic classification and to study the mineralogical
composition of their surfaces. We use the method of Gaffey et al. (1993)
to obtain spectral parameters that are extracted from the spectra of the
asteroids and that provide us with information about their surface
composition. We also use the Modified Gaussian Model (MGM) method
developed by Sunshine et al. (1990) to fit the absorption bands present
in the majority of spectra and that are associated to the presence of
minerals (mainly silicates), and to obtain information about the physics
involved into the different processes that led to the formation of such
absorption bands. References Gaffey, M. J., Bell, J. F., Brown, R. H.,
Burbine, T. H., Piatek, J. L., Reed, K. L. and Chaky, D. A. 1993.
Icarus, 106, 573 Sunshine, J. M., Pieters, C. M. and Pratt, S. F. 1990.
JGR, 95, B5, 6955