Bobby Bus
MIT

Title

"Compositional Structure in the Asteroid Belt"

Abstract

I will describe a spectroscopic study of main-belt asteroids designed to
test the genetic reality of dynamical families.  The results from this work
not only provide substantial evidence for the collisional origins of these
families, but also for an extensive collisional and dynamical evolution of
the asteroid belt as a whole.  Understanding the role of mutual collisions
among the asteroids is key to deciphering the origins of the meteorites and
the near-Earth asteroids.