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Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey (SMASS) V1.0

Published by National Aeronautics and Space Administration | National Aeronautics and Space Administration | Catalog Last Checked: August 03, 2025 at 01:58 PM | Dataset Last Updated: July 17, 2025
The Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey (SMASS) was a wide wavelength-coverage visible spectroscopic survey of asteroids carried out primarily at the Michagan-Dartmouth-MIT (McGraw Hill) Observatory on Kitt Peak beginning in 1990. This data set covers the observations for the years 1990-1994 and includes spectra of 316 asteroids. The data have been published in Xu et al. (1995), Icarus 115, 1-35, 1995.

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