Astron. Astrophys. 327, 388-391 (1997)

2063 Bacchus

This Apollo object has an estimated diameter of about 2 km. It shows a spectrum (Fig. 2) different from all the other near-Earth objects here presented. It is redder than the solar spectrum and resembles that of the more primitive C-type asteroids. Its reflectance slope is 3.7 0.1 %/10³ Å in the spectral range 5000 7500 Å, which is consistent with the reflectance slopes of C-type objects more than with those of D-types (lower limit of the reflectance slopes of D objects is about 7%/10³ Å).

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