Using the youngest asteroid clusters to constrain the space weathering and gardening rate on S-complex asteroids

Icarus

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 758-772

  Willman, Mark ^a   Jedicke, Robert ^a   Moskovitz, Nicholas ^b   Nesvorný, David ^c   Vokrouhlický, David ^d   Mothé Diniz, Thais ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Asteroids, Surfaces; Spectrophotometry; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954624183     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.02.017     Document Type: Article

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