VR Photometry of Sixteen Kuiper Belt Objects

Icarus

Volumn 152, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 246-250

  Gil Hutton, R ^a,c   Licandro, Javier ^b  

^a Observ Felix Aguilar Yale S O   (Argentina)

^b FUNDACIÓN GALILEO GALILEI INAF   (Spain)

^c National Universities of La Plata ^*  (Argentina)

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EID: 0000122416     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2001.6627     Document Type: Article

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