Photometric properties of outer planetary satellites

JVI Himalia: New Compositional Evidence and Interpretations for the Origin of Jupiter's Small Satellites

“…The F-class objects showed a better match overall to the JVI data, and we conclude that the parent body for JVI could have originated as an F-class (Zellner et al 1985). JVI Himalia and JVI Elara values are from Tholen and Zellner (1984) and Degewij et al (1980a). Error bars are included for JVI Himalia and JVII Elara where they are available.…”

“…A surprisingly low geometric albedo of 0.03 implied that JVI's primary constituents were not the bright ices of their Galilean counterparts (Cruikshank 1977). Lightcurve data, UBVRI data covering almost a decade of observations, and polarimetric data (Degewij et al 1980a) provided a rotational period range of 9.2 to 9.8 h, with 9.5 h as the best fit to the data. Spectral data suggest that JVI is composed of C-type material, a conclusion supported by VJHK data (Degewij et al 1980b).…”

Constraints to Uranus' Great Collision III: The Origin of the Outer Satellites

“…Luu (1991) showed that the brightness variations of the observed jovian satellites are consistent with those of main belt asteroids, which are collision fragments with randomized spin vectors. The photometric properties of the outer jovian satellites (Tholen and Zellner 1984) resemble main belt asteroids of type C (Degewij et al 1980). Other mechanisms to turn a temporary capture into a permanent one have been studied.…”

Implied Evolutionary Differences of the Jovian Irregular Satellites from a BVR Color Survey

“…Degewij et al (1980a) used aperture photometry to produce UBVRI colors for J6, J7, and J8 that suggested similarities with C-type asteroids. VJHK measurements of J6 Himalia (Degewij et al 1980b) showed carbonaceous chondritic type colors in the 0.5-to 2.2-micrometer region.…”