Metal-Orthopyroxene and Metal-Olivine Mixtures: Spectral Reflectance Properties and
Implications for Asteroid Spectroscopy - NASA/ADS … Metal-Orthopyroxene and Metal-Olivine
Mixtures: Spectral Reflectance Properties and Implications for Asteroid Spectroscopy … The
spectral reflectance properties of metal + mafic silicate mixtures indicate that mafic silicate
band centers can be successfully recovered, and mafic silicate compositions derived, from
analysis of the spectra. …

Introduction: Metal-mafic silicate assemblages are characteristic of a number of meteorite
classes, including achondrites such as pallasites, mesosiderites, IAB and IIICD irons,
primitive achondrites, such as lodranites, and winonaites, and primitive meteorites such as
enstatite and ordinary chondrites [1, 2]. Understanding the spectral reflectance properties of
such assemblages is necessary if we are to identify asteroiddal parent bodies, characterize
their surface assemblages, and possibly discriminate primitive from evolved assemblages …