DPS Pasadena Meeting 2000, 23-27 October 2000
Session 57. Laboratory Work Posters
Displayed, 1:00pm, Monday - 1:00pm, Friday, Highlighted Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30-6:30pm, C101-C105, C211

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[57.15] Laboratory Reflectance Spectra in the Middle-infrared: Effects of Grain Size on Spectral Features

A. Le Bras (Observatoire de Paris / IAS), S. Erard (IAS), M. Fulchignoni (Observatoire de Paris)

Since spectral mineral features are sensitive to surface parameters, interpretation of remote-sensing asteroids spectra in terms of mineral composition is not easy nor unique, and laboratory spectra are needed in order to understand the influence of each parameter.

We developped an experimental program at IAS, using the 2.5-120 microns interferometer spectrometer, to study the influence of surface parameters on mineral features. We present here the results obtained variing the grain size. We studied grain size effects with two types of terrestrial rocks: anorthosite (bright) and basalte (dark) in the 2-40 microns range. We observed variations of the spectral contrast with grain size, shifts in wavelengths and variations of the intensity of some characteristic spectral features, and appearence of transparency features at wavelengths longer than 8 microns.


The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: aurelie.lebras@obspm.fr


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