Description of the ASTEROID ALBEDOS FROM STELLAR           
        OCCULTATIONS bundle V1.0
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Bundle Generation Date: 2020-06-12
Peer Review: 2007 Asteroid Review, 2007-05-24                                 
Discipline node: Small Bodies Node


Content description based on the data set catalog file description for the PDS3 version, EAR-A-VARGBDET-5-OCCALB-V1.0
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Note: for PDS3 data sets migrated to PDS4, the following text is taken
verbatim from the data set description and confidence level note of the
PDS3 data set catalog file. In these cases, some details may not be correct
as a description of the PDS4 bundle.
                                                           
    These albedos for 57 asteroids from stellar occultation diameters         
    are published in Shevchenko and Tedesco (2006)                            
    [SHEVCHENKO&TEDES2006].  This data set is reproduced from Table 1         
    of that paper.  The albedos are derived from the stellar                  
    occultation diameters compiled in the file occdiam.tab in version         
    3.0 of the PDS asteroid occultations data set, Dunham, D. W. and          
    Herald, D., Asteroid Occultations. EAR-A-3-RDR-OCCULTATIONS-V3.0.         
    NASA Planetary Data System, 2005 [DUNHAM&HERALD2005]. Error bars          
    for the occultation diameters are provided in that file.                  
                                                                              
    Also included in the data set are the aspect data of the asteroids        
    at the time of the occultation and the other parameters involved          
    in the derivation.                                                        
                                                                              
    For a full description of the derivation of the albedos and a             
    discussion of the results, see the original paper, Shevchenko and         
    Tedesco (2006).                                                           
                                                                              
    Shevchenko, V.G. and E.F. Tedesco, Asteroid albedos deduced from          
    stellar occultations, Icarus 184, 211-220, 2006.


Known issues or problems with the data
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    Quality codes for the occultation diameters and absolute                  
    magnitudes on which the albedos are based are given in the data           
    set.  For further information about the confidence level of the           
    data, see the original paper, Shevchenko and Tedesco (2006).

PDS3 Source
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Version 1.0 of this bundle was migrated from version 1.0 of the PDS3 data set EAR-A-VARGBDET-5-OCCALB-V1.0.