Bibcode
de León, Julia; Licandro, J. L.; Pinilla-Alonso, N.; Lazzaro, D.
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #35.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.481
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2007
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Description
We have computed the Band Area Ratio (BAR) and Band I Center parameters,
following the method by Cloutis et al. (1986) and Gaffey et al. (1993)
for all the existent visible and near-infrared spectra of near-Earth
asteroids (NEAs), main belt asteroids (MBs) and meteorites (Duffard et
al.2005). For the NEAs we have grouped observations from NEOSS (de
León et al. 2007), SINEO (Lazzarin et al. 2005) and SMASS (Bus
& Binzel, 2002b ; http://smass.mit.edu/minus.html) databases, with a
total of 76 objects. In the case of MBs, we have joined visible spectra
from SMASS database with near-infrared spectra from 52-color database
when available, using also MB objects observed during the runs of the
NEOSS. A total of 71 complete spectra of main belt asteroids have been
studied. Errors were also computed for both parameters. From a first
comparison of both plots, there seems to be a lack of NEAs through the
diagonal of the graph (from bottom-left to upper-right), while this
region is quite well filled in the case of MB objects. Besides, there
are much more objects located near the olivine-rich region in the case
of MB asteroids than for NEAs. Those regions in the plot were defined
based on meteorite samples, so if meteorites come directly from the
NEAs, then the two poupulations must be compatible. We will show that
this is the case. We will discuss these and other differences between
the distribution of both populations in the spectral parameters space,
considering questions as the size of the bodies or the completeness of
the different databases available, as well as the mineralogical
implications that could be driven from this kind of plots.