DETECTION OF WATER AND/OR HYDROXYL ON ASTEROID (16) Psyche

In order to search for evidence of hydration on M-type asteroid (16) Psyche, we observed this object in the 3 mu m spectral region using the long-wavelength cross-dispersed (LXD: 1.9-4.2 mu m) mode of the SpeX spectrograph/imager at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility. Our observations show that Ps...

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Main Authors: Takir, Driss, Reddy, Vishnu, Sanchez, Juan A., Shepard, Michael K., Emery, Joshua P.
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab
Language:en
Published: IOP PUBLISHING LTD 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622751
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/622751