Nereid Has Complex Large-Amplitude Photometric Variability

Icarus

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 541-555

  Schaefer, Bradley E ^a   Schaefer, Martha W ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Photometry; Rotational dynamics; Satellites of Neptune

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011738074     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6417     Document Type: Article

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