Abstract
Context. Earlier visible spectroscopic classification of (1400) Tirela suggests that this object is a D-type. As the Tirela family has high eccentricities and inclinations, its parent-body could have been implanted in the main belt during the late heavy bombardment, a scenario recently proposed for some D-type asteroids. Spectra of other members of the family have not been available until now, except for colors from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (filters u, g, r, i, and z) for some of them. These colors also suggest that the family has slopes similar to D-types.
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