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A-type asteroids are relatively uncommon inner-belt asteroids that have a strong broad 1 µm olivine feature and a very reddish spectrum shortwards of 0.7 µm. They are thought to come from the completely differentiated mantle of an asteroid.A-type asteroids are so rare that as of 2005 only 17 had been discovered.

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