A number of distinct methodologies are available for determining the oxygen isotope
composition of minerals and rocks, these include laser-assisted fluorination, secondary ion …

The Dawn mission has provided new evidence strengthening the identification of asteroid
Vesta as the parent body of the howardite, eucrite, and diogenite (HED) meteorites. The …

We present the results of a visible spectroscopic survey of 820 asteroids carried on between
November 1996 and September 2001 at the 1.52 m telescope at ESO (La Silla). The …

Pyroxenes are among the most common minerals in the solar system and are ideally suited
for remote geochemical analysis because of the sensitivity of their distinctive spectra to …

Reflectance spectroscopy is a powerful tool for the investigation of the nature, history,
evolution, and relationships between asteroids and meteorites. This information provides a …

Context. Basaltic V-type asteroids are leftovers from the formation and evolution of
differentiated planetesimals. They are thought to originate from mantles and crusts of …

Basaltic V-type asteroids are common in the inner part of the Main Asteroid Belt and much
less abundant in the mid and outer parts. They are of scientific interest because they sample …

Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs) offer insight into a size range of objects that are not easily
observed in the main asteroid belt. Previous studies on the diversity of the NEA population …

Methods to constrain the surface mineralogy of asteroids have seen considerable
development during the last decade, with advancement in laboratory spectral calibrations …

V-type asteroids in the inner Main Belt (a< 2.5 AU) and the HED meteorites are thought to be
genetically related to one another as collisional fragments from the surface of the large …