The Distribution and Physical State of H2O on Charon

Icarus

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 324-339

  Buie, M W ^a   Grundy, W M ^a  

^a LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charon; Satellites; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001133992     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6509     Document Type: Article

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