Compositional characterisation of the Themis family The MIT Faculty has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters. Citation Marsset, M. et al. “Compositional Characterisation of the Themis Family.” Astronomy & Astrophysics 586 (2016): A15. © 2016 ESO As Published http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201526962 Publisher EDP Sciences Version Final published version Citable link http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/106187 Terms of Use Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. A&A 586, A15 (2016) Astronomy DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201526962 & c ESO 2016 Astrophysics Compositional characterisation of the Themis family M. Marsset1,2, P. Vernazza2, M. Birlan3,4,F.DeMeo5,R.P.Binzel5,C.Dumas1, J. Milli1, and M. Popescu4,3 1 European Southern Observatory (ESO), Alonso de Córdova 3107, 1900 Casilla Vitacura, Santiago, Chile e-mail:
[email protected] 2 Aix Marseille University, CNRS, LAM (Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Marseille) UMR 7326, 13388 Marseille, France 3 IMCCE, Observatoire de Paris, 77 avenue Denfert-Rochereau, 75014 Paris Cedex, France 4 Astronomical Institute of the Romanian Academy, 5 Cu¸titul de Argint, 040557 Bucharest, Romania 5 Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, MIT, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA Received 14 July 2015 / Accepted 11 November 2015 ABSTRACT Context. It has recently been proposed that the surface composition of icy main-belt asteroids (B-, C-, Cb-, Cg-, P-, and D-types) may be consistent with that of chondritic porous interplanetary dust particles (CP IDPs).