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Torino Asteroid Polarimetry

This data set contains asteroid polarimetric observations made during 1995-2005 with the Torino photopolarimeter at the 2.15-m telescope at El Leoncito Observatory in Argentina. These observations are reported in Cellino et al. (2005).

Cellino, A., R. Gil Hutton, M. DiMartino, Ph. Bendjoya, I.N. Belskaya, and E.F. Tedesco, Asteroid polarimetric observations using the Torino UBVRI photopolarimeter, Icarus 179, 304-324, 2005.

Release Date: 2020-04-27

Data Set Info
PDS4 version urn:nasa:pds:gbo.ast.torino.polarimetry::1.0 Browse Download (39 kb)
PDS3 version EAR-A-I0066-5-TORINOPOL-V1.0 Browse Download (40 kb)

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

Use the following citation to reference this data set:

"Cellino, A., Gil-Hutton, R., DiMartino M., Bendjoya, Ph., Belskaya, I.N., and Tedesco, E.F. (2020). Torino Asteroid Polarimetry V1.0. urn:nasa:pds:gbo.ast.torino.polarimetry::1.0. NASA Planetary Data System; https://doi.org/10.26033/r8p1-0j03."