Surface composition of Kuiper belt object 1993SC

Science

Volumn 276, Issue 5314, 1997, Pages 937-939

  Brown, Robert H ^a   Cruikshank, Dale P ^b   Pendleton, Yvonne ^b   Veeder, Glenn J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; INFRARED RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTROSCOPY;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY;

ACETYLENE; ETHANE; ETHYLENES; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROCARBONS; ICE; METEOROIDS; METHANE; NEPTUNE; NITROGEN; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

EID: 0030965720     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.276.5314.937     Document Type: Article

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23. The W. M. Keck Observatory is operated as a scientific partnership between the California Institute of Technology and the University of California. It was made possible by the generous financial support of the W. M. Keck Foundation. We acknowledge the assistance of W. Harrison at the telescope. We dedicate this paper to the memory of Professor Carl Sagan whose scientific contributions have strongly influenced the concepts presented here.