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===================================================================== ==> In this proposal, more time is being requested for ABARUCCI.ASTEROID ===================================================================== This is a continuation of a previous accepted programme. The mid- to far-infrared region contains a wealth of diagnostic spectral features but is basically unexploited in the study of asteroid surface composition. We proposed to study the composition of primitive asteroids by obtaining low resolution spectra in the range 2-45 microns. The observations will yield insights into the composition, mineralogy, physical nature and distribution of solid materials on the surface of asteroids. With these observations, we wish to investigate dark, volatile-rich asteroids and their relation to comets, believed to be among primitive object of the solar system. The observations of these three asteroids (eliminated from the previous programme due to decrease of the sensibility of SWS) will complete and improve our investigation on these primitive objects.