Earth Trojan Asteroids: A Study in Support of Observational Searches

Icarus

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-43

  Wiegert, Paul ^a,b   Innanen, Kimmo ^a,b   Mikkola, Seppo ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Dynamics; Earth; Resonances

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003066040     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6339     Document Type: Article

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