Description of the BELSKAYA ASTEROID POLARIMETRY bundle V1.0
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Bundle Generation Date: 2020-02-28
Peer Review: 2010 Asteroid Review, Mon Jun 07 00:00:00 MST 2010               
Discipline node: Small Bodies Node


Content description based on the data set catalog file description for the PDS3 version, EAR-A-I0942/I0943-3-BELSKAYAPOL-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.
                                                           
    This data set includes UBVRI polarimetric measurements of ten main-belt   
    asteroids including space mission targets 1 Ceres and 21 Lutetia, in      
    addition to the potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid (NEA) 23187 2000
    PN9.                                                                      
                                                                              
    The main belt asteroid observations were made during 1996-2004 at the     
    Crimean Astrophysical Observatory (CrAO) 1.25m telescope, with a          
    five-channel UBVRI photopolarimeter, and have been reported in Belskaya et
    al. (2009).  NEA 23187 2000 PN9 was observed in March 2006 at the Asiago  
    Astrophysical Observatory 1.82m telescope using the Asiago Faint Object   
    Spectrographic Camera (AFOSC) polarimeter, and have been reported in      
    Belskaya et al. 2009b.                                                    
                                                                              
    References                                                                
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    Belskaya, I.N., A.-C. Levasseur-Regourd, A. Cellino, Y.S. Efimov, N.M.    
    Shakhovskoy, E. Hadamcik, and P. Bendjoya, Polarimetry of main belt       
    asteroids: Wavelength dependence, Icarus 199, 97-105, 2009.               
    [BELSKAYAETAL2009]                                                        
                                                                              
    Belskaya, I.N., S. Fornasier, and Y.N. Krugly, Polarimetry and BVRI       
    photometry of the potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroid (23187) 2000  
    PN9, Icarus 201, 167-171, 2009. [BELSKAYAETAL2009B]


Known issues or problems with the data
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    See the published papers, Belskaya et al. (2009) and Belskaya et al.      
    (2009b) for detailed information about the reliability of the             
    measurements.

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-I0942/I0943-3-BELSKAYAPOL-V1.0.