Asteroid Space Weathering and Regolith Evolution

By B. Clark, B. Hapke, Carle M. Pieters, D. Britt. 2002

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• Hydrated Minerals on Asteroids: The Astronomical Record (2003, background): “Another possibility is that “space weathering” processes similar to those found at shorter wavelengths could be at work (Clark et al., 2002).”
• Observed spectral properties of near-Earth objects: results for population distribution, source regions, and space weathering processes (2004, background): “7 be due to decreasing particle size part of the process of regolith development? An analysi albedo and spectral contrasts within Psyche crater on by Clark et al. (2001)provides a case against regolith dev opment causing the increasing s pectral slope with increasin diameter.”
• SPACE WEATHERING OF ASTEROID SURFACES (2004, background): “Clark et al. (2002) have written a recent review of asteroid space weathering.”
• Extremely high reflection of solar wind protons as neutral hydrogen atoms from regolith in space (2009, background): “Introduction In the Solar System, space weathering results in most surfaces of atmosphereless bodies being covered by regolith, a layer of loose, heterogeneous material of small grain size (Clark et al., 2002).”
• An extension of the Bus asteroid taxonomy into the near-infrared (2009, background): “Instead the S, Sq, Sr, and Sv objects with high slopes receive a notation of w added to their name as a moniker for what is commonly discussed as an increase in slope arising from space weathering (Clark et al., 2002).”
• Phase reddening on near-Earth asteroids: Implications for mineralogical analysis, space weathering and taxonomic classification (2012, methodology): “Spectral slope variations can be interpreted as surface heterogeneities caused by different factors such as metal content, particle size and space weathering (Gaffey et al., 1993; Clark et al., 2002a; Gaffey, 2010).”
• Mineralogies and source regions of near-Earth asteroids (2013, result): “, 2012b) and confirmed by spacecraft observations of Eros (Clark et al., 2002), Itokawa (Abe et al.”
• Keck observations of near-Earth asteroids in the thermal infrared (2003, background): “For a detailed discussion of space weathering on asteroid surfaces see Clark et al. (2002).”
• Irradiation of olivine by 4 keV He+: Simulation of space weathering by the solar wind (2009, methodology): “…the role of ion irradiation on space weathering, we performed experiments on olivine, a common mineral found on many asteroids [Gaffey et al., 1993; Clark et al., 2002] that has been shown to be susceptible to space weathering [Moroz et al., 1996; Sasaki et al., 2001; Brunetto et al., 2006a;…”
• Evidence for asteroid space weathering from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (2005, background): “…Asteroids (2 Ida, (951) Gaspra, and (433) Eros mimic the sens the color differences observed for lunar soils with ol surfaces being darker and redder in appearance(Veverka et al., 1996, 2000; Chapman, 2004; Chapma al., 1996; Clark et al., 2001, 2002a, 2002b; Murc et al., 2002; Bell et al., 2002).”