In-flight calibration of the near earth asteroid rendezvous laser rangefinder

Icarus

Volumn 148, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 572-586

  Cheng, Andrew F ^a   Cole, Timothy D ^a   Zuber, Maria T ^b,c   Smith, David E ^c   Guo, Yanping ^a   Davidson, Frederic ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Eros; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001600109     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6487     Document Type: Article

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