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1 Summary
2 Graph
3 Data Sources
4 Licensing

[edit] Summary

Illustration of colors of Centaurs. Plotted by a program written by Eurocommuter.

[edit] Graph

The position of an object represents the two colour indices
- horizontal axis V-B, blue colour index i.e. the difference in the magnitude of the object observed through a visual (green-yellow) and a blue filter
- vertical axis R-V, red colour index, the difference in the magnitude between red and visual filters
colour (slightly enhanced) represents the hue of the object; no albedo differences are currently displayed, in spite of the graph's title!
the size of a sphere illustrates the object’s size relative to others.
- for a few large objects, the diameter drawn represents the current estimates (for known albedos)
- for all the others, the diameter represents the absolute (V) magnitude of the object.
- for Phoebe, Triton, and Mars (yellow labels), size is not shown to scale.

[edit] Data Sources

Color indexes from MBOSS base: Hainaut & Delsanti (2002) Color of Minor Bodies in the Outer Solar System Astronomy & Astrophysics, 389, 641 [1]

as of Mar. 13th, 2006

Magnitudes from MPCORB as of Feb 14th, 2006

[edit] Licensing

I, the author of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses:

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".