Physical Characteristics of Near-Earth Asteroids from Thermal Infrared Spectrophotometry

Icarus

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 464-475

  Harris, Alan W ^a   Davies, John K ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Eros; Infrared observations; Spectrophotometry; Surfaces of asteroids

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001413112     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6248     Document Type: Article

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