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Proposal Identication No.: R1605 Date Received: 2001-Oct-01 21:07:53
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Proposal Type: Regular
General Category: Planetary Radar
Sub-Category: Radar
Observation Category: Solar System
Total Time Requested: 151 Hours
Proposal Title: Completing the Radar Survey of Fifty Main-Belt Asteroids
ABSTRACT:
We propose to complete an ongoing two-year radar survey of fty main-belt asteroids, extending the project for one
year to compensate for instrumental problems encountered throughout 2000. In its rst thirteen months the survey
has achieved a high detection rate, with 17 targets observed and 15 detected, including the rst-ever radar
detections of D-class and T-class asteroids. This survey, once extended and completed, should more than double
the radar-detected sample, providing otherwise unavailable information about these objects' mineralogical and
structural characteristics and meteoritic associations. Specic key questions to be addressed involve the nature of
S-class asteroids (dierentiated or chondritic), the near-surface bulk densities of the primitive carbonaceous classes,
and the apparent dispersion of metal concentrations among M-class asteroids. The completed survey also will
strongly constrain how the severity of surface roughness at decimeter scales depends on class and size, with
implications for ideas about collisional evolution.
Name Institution E-mail Phone Student
Christopher Magri University of Maine
at Farmington
magri@maine.edu 207-778-7369 no
I do NOT want to do remote observing.
Instrument Setup
S-Band radar S-band receiver
Atmospheric Optical Instruments:
Special Equipment or setup: none
RFI Considerations
Frequency Ranges Planned
1