Asteroid (354) eleonora: Plucking an odd duck

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Michael J. Gaffey, Vishnu Reddy, Sherry-Fieber-Beyer, Edward Cloutis

Icarus
doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.12.036
available online 9 January 2015

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The parent lithology of the surface regolith may be similar to a pallasite assemblage, although none of the three known types of pallasites are good mineralogical matches.

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