Basaltic material in the main belt: a tale of two parent bodies?
Abstract
The majority of basaltic objects in the main belt are dynamically connected to Vesta, the largest differentiated asteroid known. Others, due to their current orbital parameters, cannot be easily linked to Vesta and could be fragments of another differentiated asteroid. We conducted an on-going spectroscopic survey to characterize basaltic candidates in the middle and outer main belt. Here we present the latest results.
- Publication:
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European Planetary Science Congress
- Pub Date:
- September 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018EPSC...12..757I