Estimating asteroid density distributions from shape and gravity information

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 48, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 965-971

  Scheeres, D J ^a   Khushalani, B ^a   Werner, R A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density distribution; Eros; NEAR; Polyhedral gravity field

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009153256     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0032-0633(00)00064-7     Document Type: Article

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