Categories
MM-COSMIC ANALOGS
Summary: MM-SIZED SINGLE PARTICLES
mm- cosmic analogs subcategories
Compact
Practical significance
Spinel is related with the composition of Barbarian asteroids (Cellino et al. 2006, Sunshine et al. 2008 ; Devogèle et al. 2018)
Particle size
3.8 mm (volume-equivalent sphere radius)
Particle shape
crystal habit with sharp angles and flat faces
All SEM images (zip file)
Images
All images (zip file)
Refractive index
1.72 + i3×0.0001
Color
dark red
Scattering matrix (1) wavelength in nm
520
Scattering matrix (1) plot
Scattering matrix (1) table
Angle range (deg)
[7,175]
Paper (pdf)
Full reference paper
Frattin E, Martikainen J, Muñoz O, Gómez-Martín J-C, Jardel T, Cellino A, Libourel G, Muinonen K, Peiteado M and Tanga P. Experimental phase function and degree of linear polarization curve of olivine and spinel and the origin of the Barbarian polarization behaviour. MNRAS vol. 517, pp. 5463-5472, 2022.
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