Mars encounters cause fresh surfaces on some near-Earth asteroids
All airless bodies are subject to the space environment, and spectral differences between asteroids and meteorites suggest many asteroids become weathered on very short (<1 Myr) timescales. The spectra of some asteroids, particularly Q-types, indicate surfaces that appear young and fresh, implyin...
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Elsevier
2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/101288 |