Ground-Based Photometry of Asteroid 951 Gaspra

Asteroid Lightcurve Observations from 1981 to 1983

“…We observed Gaspra on two nights in 1982, long before it became the target of the first spacecraft flyby of an asteroid by Galileo. Our observations were included in the paper by Wisniewski et al (1993). We include aspect data in Table II and include the observations in the machine readable data file, but do not reiterate the detailed analysis here.…”

Commission 15: Physical Study of Comets. Minor Planets and meteorites (L’etude Physique des Cometes. des Petites Planetes Et des Meteorites)

“…In the last three years a particular effort has been focused on the targets of current or planned space missions, such as 951 Gaspra (Di Martino et al 1990, Wisniewski et al 1993) and 243 Ida , in order to compare lightcurve-derived physical properties with high-resolution imaging data. Photometric studies of individual asteroids can also indicate heterogeneities of composition and texture of the surface, such as indicated by phase relation and color variations for 51 Nemausa Kristensen 1991, Kristensen andGammelgaard 1993).…”