Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey (SMASS)

The Small Main-belt Asteroid Spectrographic Survey (SMASS) consists of visible spectra of 316 small main-belt asteroids observed primarily with the 2.4 m Hiltner telescope, located at the Michigan-Dartmouth-MIT (MDM) Observatory on Kitt Peak in Arizona. The data have been published in Xu, et al. (Icarus 115, 1-35, 1995).

Release Date: 2020-08-31

Data Set Info
PDS4 version urn:nasa:pds:gbo.ast.smass.spectra::1.0 Browse Download (1.9 MB)
PDS3 version EAR-A-M3SPEC-3-RDR-SMASS-V2.1 Browse Download (1.8 MB)

The PDS4 bundle was migrated from the PDS3 data set in August 2020. The data content is unchanged.

Use the following citation to reference this data set:

"Xu, S., Binzel, R.P., Burbine, T.H., and Bus, S.J. (2020). Small Main-Belt Asteroid Survey V1.0. urn:nasa:pds:gbo.ast.smass.spectra::1.0. NASA Planetary Data System; https://doi.org/10.26033/2qgx-r057."

Superseded Versions: Show

EAR-A-M3SPEC-3-RDR-SMASS-V1.0 Browse Download (742 kb)