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IDing Meteorite Parent Bodies

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The S-asteroid / Ordinary Chondrite ParadoxThe problem with interpreting S-asteroids as ordinarychondrites is that they have significantly different spectraS-asteroid spectra are redderand have weaker features thanordinary chondrites15 Eunomia (S)EitherSpectral differences indicatecompositional differences,and therefore, S ≠ OCOrThe surface of S-asteroids is modified (spaceweathered) in a fashion that changes the spectrum.H4, H6 & LL6ordinary chondrites

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