Abstract Many small bodies in the solar system, including planetary satellites, comets, and asteroids, have a surface component consisting at least in part of a very low albedo (0.06 or less) solid substance of neutral or red color in the wavelength region 0.3–2.5 μm. Laboratory spectra of organic residues from meteorites and mixtures with hydrous silicates suggest that complex mixtures of complex organic molecules (kerogens) together with aqueous alteration products of igneous minerals may be the source of the dark matter that is distributed so widely throughout the solor system.
Dark matter in the solar system
Advances in Space Research ; 7 , 5 ; 109-120
01.01.1987
12 pages
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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