An asteroidal companion to the earth

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6634, 1997, Pages 685-686

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

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; DYNAMICS; GRAVITY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ASTEROID 3753; ORBIT;

EID: 0030617678     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42662     Document Type: Article

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