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[PPS03-P17]The appearance of a non-weathered 'fresh' surface on 596 Scheila after the impact event
*長谷川 直1、Marsset Michaël2,3、DeMeo Francesca3、Bus Schelte4、石黒 正晃5、黒田 大介6、Binzel Richard3、Hanuš Josef7、中村 昭子8、Yang Bin2,9、Vernazza Pierre10 (1.宇宙航空研究開発機構、2.ヨーロッパ南天天文台、3.マサチューセッツ工科大学、4.ハワイ大学、5.ソウル大学、6.京都大学、7.カレル大学、8.神戸大学、9.ディエゴ・ポルタレス大学、10.マルセイユ天体物理学研究所)
596 Scheila was discovered to have a comet-like appearance on 2010 December. It is thought that the comet-like activity was caused by a few tens of meters in diameter impacting its surface and scattering the ejecta. While the asteroid surface is subjected to the process of space weathering, the ejecta from craters are ejected and scattered on the surface of the asteroid from underground where they are not affected by space weathering. This means that the 596 surface has been refreshed by this activity. We (Hasegawa et al. 2022, ApJL 924, L9) found that there was no change in the visible and 3-μm spectrum, but the near-infrared spectrum from 0.8 μm to 2.5 μm wavelength region changed to red (from T class to D class). This indicates less red due to space weathering process, which is in consistent with the results of laboratory experiments on the Tagish lake meteorite, which has a similar spectrum to 596. This discovery is the first example of astronomical observations confirming the space weathering process of Tagish lake like bodies.