TY - JOUR
AU - Rosewarne, Kathleen
AB - Pictures like this may just look like a blur, but from analysis of such radar images of the near-Earth asteroid 1986 DA, Stephen Ostro and collegues of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA, have confirmed that this asteroid is much more reflective than other radar-detected asteroids. Such high reflectivities are a unique signature of high metal content and provide the first firm evidence for the existence of near-Earth metallic asteroids, in this case with a nickeliron composition (Science (1991) 252 1399).
TI - Mines of the future?
JF - Physics World
DO - 10.1088/2058-7058/4/8/28
DA - 1991-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/iop-publishing/mines-of-the-future-0Vv2xN2N04
SP - 27
VL - 4
IS - 8
DP - DeepDyve
ER -