Polarization of Asteroid (387) Aquitania: The newest member of a class of large inversion angle asteroids

✍ Scribed by Joseph Masiero; Alberto Cellino

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 485 KB
• Volume: 199
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0019-1035
• DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.10.003

✦ Synopsis

We present new imaging polarimetric observations of two Main Belt asteroids, (234) Barbara and (387) Aquitania, taken in the first half of 2008 using the Dual-Beam Imaging Polarimeter on the University of Hawaii 2.2 m telescope, located on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Barbara had been previously shown to exhibit a very unusual polarization-phase curve by [Cellino, A., Belskaya, I.N., Bendjoya, Ph., di Martino, M., Gil Hutton, R., Muinonen, K., Tedesco, E.F., 2006. Icarus 180, 565-