Asteroids, Meteors, Meteorites, and Comets by Nicholas Faulkner

Author:Nicholas Faulkner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Britannica Educational Publishing

ASSOCIATION OF METEORITES WITH ASTEROIDS

If meteoritic material comes from specific regions of the asteroid belt, then the asteroids in such regions should have the chemical and mineralogical composition observed in the meteorites. The surface mineralogical composition of asteroids, in principle, can be determined directly by observations from Earth of the albedo and the spectrum of the reflected light (reflectance spectrum). A number of processes conspire, however, to make the association of certain asteroids with the various meteorite groups much more difficult than might be expected.

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