Using the youngest asteroid clusters to constrain the space weathering and gardening rate on S-complex asteroids

To link to full-text access for this article, visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2010.02.017 Byline: Mark Willman (a), Robert Jedicke (a), Nicholas Moskovitz (b), David NesvornA1/2 (c), David VokrouhlickA1/2 (d), Thais Mothe-Diniz (e) Keywords: Asteroids, Surfaces; Spectrophotometry; Spectroscopy Abstract: We have extended our earlier work on space weathering of the youngest S-complex asteroid families to include results from asteroid clusters with ages Author Affiliation: (a) Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2680 Woodlawn Drive, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA (b) Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, 5241 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington, DC 20008, USA (c) Department of Space Studies, Southwest Research Institute, 1050 Walnut Street, Suite 400, Boulder, CO 80302, USA (d) Institute of Astronomy, Charles University, V HoleA oviAkach 2, CZ-18000 Prague 8, Czech Republic (e) UFRJ/Observatorio do Valongo, Ladeira Pedro AntA[acute accent]nio, 43, 20080-090 Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil Article History: Received 7 December 2009; Revised 25 February 2010; Accepted 26 February 2010