Spectrophotometric Observations of Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt Objects

Icarus

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 476-481

  Barucci, M A ^a   Doressoundiram, A ^a   Tholen, D ^b   Fulchignoni, M ^a   Lazzarin, M ^c  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Kuiper Belt objects; Photometry; Spectrophotometry; Trans neptunian objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000789929     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6212     Document Type: Article

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