UCF Student's Primitive Asteroids Work Provides Context for Further Research, Future NASA Missions

UCF Student's Primitive Asteroids Work Provides Context for Further Research, Future NASA Missions

Space Daily

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Orlando FL (SPX) May 15, 2024

The primitive asteroids that UCF physics doctoral student Brittany Harvison studies carry with them traces of their origins and billions of years of our solar system's history. Harvison recently pored through a library of infrared telescope data to analyze the spectral composition of 25 members of the Erigone family of primitive asteroids and help fill in the gaps in our understanding of t

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