Hubble Space Telescope Images of Asteroid 4 Vesta in 1994

✍ Scribed by Benjamin H. Zellner; Rudolph Albrecht; Richard P. Binzel; Michael J. Gaffey; Peter C. Thomas; Alex D. Storrs; Eddie N. Wells

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 308 KB
• Volume: 128
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0019-1035
• DOI: 10.1006/icar.1997.5735

✦ Synopsis

The Planetary Camera of the WFPC2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope was used in late 1994 to record 56 images of demonstrated that the photometric lightcurve of Vesta is Asteroid 4 Vesta in four compositionally diagnostic wavelength not due to shape and shadowing, as is the case for almost bands. The images were taken at eight epochs to give global all other asteroids, but is due to hemispheric albedo differcoverage of Vesta at an aspect of approximately 16؇ north ences of about 10%. Conspicuous albedo markings from latitude. The prograde rotation of Vesta is clearly revealed groundbased speckle interferometry have been reported by surface markings contributing to a hemispherical albedo by Drummond et al. (1988) and Drummond and Hege difference.