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Carbonaceous Chondrites

Visible and Infrared Spectral Survey of Antarctic Carbonaceous Chondrite Chips

This is a compilation of photographs and visible and inrared (VIR) reflectance spectral data of carbonaceous chondrite chips stored mainly at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) and NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) measured over a long period of time starting while Takahiro Hiroi was a visiting professor at NIPR during the summer of 2010.  The project was later funded by the Japanese Government grant (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24540493) and NASA PDART grant (Grant Number NNX17AK46G).  The detailed results were published as:

T. Hiroi, H. Kaiden, N. Imae, K. Misawa, H. Kojima, S. Sasaki, M. Matsuoka, T. Nakamura, D. L. Bish, K. Ohtsuka, K. T. Howard, K. R. Robertson, R. E. Milliken (2021) UV-visible-infrared spectral survey of Antarctic carbonaceous chondrite chips.  Polar Sci. 29, 100723.

(The remaining part is under construction)