CCD REFLECTANCE SPECTRA OF APOLLO ASTEROID-4179 TOUTATIS

Authors
LAZZARIN M BARBIERI C MARZARI F
Citation
M. Lazzarin et al., CCD REFLECTANCE SPECTRA OF APOLLO ASTEROID-4179 TOUTATIS, Planetary and space science, 42(4), 1994, pp. 327-336
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Planetary and space science → ACNP
ISSN journal
00320633
Volume
42
Issue
4
Year of publication
1994
Pages
327 - 336
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-0633(1994)42:4<327:CRSOAA>2.0.ZU;2-I
Abstract
Asteroid 4179 Toutatis has been extensively observed during its 1992-9 3 close encounter with the Earth. We observed it spectroscopically in the visible at the ESO-La Silla Observatory (Chile) and at the Asiago Observatory (Italy). Analysis of low-resolution spectra of the asteroi d taken at the Asiago Observatory (Italy) has revealed typical behavio ur of an S-type object with no evidence of surface composition variati ons.