Modeling the Structure of High Porosity Asteroids

Icarus

Volumn 152, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 134-139

  Britt, D T ^a   Consolmagno S J , G J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b VATICAN OBSERVATORY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Composition; Eros; Eugenia; Geological processes; Ida; Mathilde; Rotation; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001145305     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2001.6628     Document Type: Article

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