Asteroid Trails in Hubble Space TelescopeWFPC2 Images: First Results

Icarus

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 261-282

  Evans, Robin W ^a   Stapelfeldt, Karl R ^a   Peters, Daniel P ^a   Trauger, John T ^a   Padgett, Deborah L ^b   Ballester, Gilda E ^c   Burrows, Christopher J ^d   Clarke, John T ^c   Crisp, David ^a   Gallagher, Jay S ^e   Griffiths, Richard E ^f   Grillmair, Carl ^b   Hester, J Jeff ^g   Hoessel, John G ^e   Holtzmann, Jon ^h   Krist, John ^d   McMaster, Matthew ^d   Meadows, Vikki ^a   Mould, Jeremy R ⁱ   Ostrander, Eric ^f   Sahai, Raghvendra ^a   Scowen, Paul A ^g   Watson, Alan M ^j   Westphal, James ^b   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d STScI   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^f CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

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EID: 0012377095     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1997.5873     Document Type: Article

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