title: Discovery of a main-belt asteroid resembling ordinary chondrite meteorites.
abstract: Although ordinary chondrite material dominates meteorite falls, the identification of a main-belt asteroid source has remained elusive. From a new survey of more than 80 small main-belt asteroids comes the discovery of one having a visible and near-infrared reflectance spectrum similar to L6 and LL6 ordinary chondrite meteorites. Asteroid 3628 BoZnemcová has an estimated diameter of 7 kilometers and is located in the vicinity of the 3:1 Jovian resonance, a predicted meteorite source region. Although the discovery of a spectral match may indicate the existence of ordinary chondrite material within the main asteroid belt, the paucity of such detections remains an unresolved problem.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Binzel
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: S J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Bus
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Skrutskie
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Knezek
authors.forename: E S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Barker