Abstract The Framing Camera (FC) is the German contribution to the Dawn mission. The
camera will map 4 Vesta and 1 Ceres through a clear filter and 7 band-pass filters covering …

New observations of the S‐type asteroids Gaspra and Ida, especially, by the Galileo
spacecraft demonstrate that a “space weathering” process operates, which modifies the …

ABSTRACT NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has been brought
out of hibernation and has resumed surveying the sky at 3.4 and 4.6 μm. The scientific …

The availability of asteroid spectral measurements extending to the near-infrared, resulting
from the development of new telescopic instruments (such as SpeX [Rayner, JT, and 7 …

The distribution of asteroids across the main belt has been studied for decades to
understand the current compositional distribution and what that tells us about the formation …

The second phase of the Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey (SMASSII)
produced an internally consistent set of visible-wavelength charge-coupled device (CCD) …

The plant hormone auxin regulates various developmental processes including root
formation, vascular development, and gravitropism. Mutations within the AUX1 gene confer …

The NEOWISE data set offers the opportunity to study the variations in albedo for asteroid
classification schemes based on visible and near-infrared observations for a large sample of …

Context. The classification of the minor bodies of the Solar System based on observables
has been continuously developed and iterated over the past 40 yr. While prior iterations …

The main belt is believed to have originally contained an Earth mass or more of material,
enough to allow the asteroids to accrete on relatively short timescales. The present-day …