Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Program (LINEAR)

Icarus

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-28

  Stokes, Grant H ^a   Evans, Jenifer B ^a   Viggh, Herbert E M ^a   Shelly, Frank C ^a   Pearce, Eric C ^a  

^a MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid; Comet; Data reduction techniques; Image processing; Instrumentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002641173     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6493     Document Type: Article

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