The Depletion of the Putative Vulcanoid Population via the Yarkovsky Effect

Icarus

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 147-152

  Vokrouhlický, David ^a   Farinella, Paolo ^b   Bottke Jr , William F ^c  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Dynamics; Mercury

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009230309     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6468     Document Type: Article

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