Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous: Mission overview

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 102, Issue E10, 1997, Pages 23695-23708

  Cheng, A F ^a   Santo, A G ^a   Heeres, K J ^a   Landshof, J A ^a   Farquhar, R W ^a   Gold, R E ^a   Lee, S C ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Appearance energies; Bond energies; Enthalpy of formation; Metastable ion decay; Molybdenum complexes; Multiphoton absorption pathways

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; NEAR MISSION;

EID: 0031411158     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96je03364     Document Type: Article

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