The NEAR X-ray/gamma-ray spectrometer

Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest (Applied Physics Laboratory)

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 126-135

  Goldsten, John O ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c APL   (United States)

^d Space Sciences Instrumentation Group ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma ray; NEAR; Spectrometer; X ray

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; ORBITS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE RENDEZVOUS; X RAY SPECTROMETERS;

ASTEROIDS; NEAR EARTH ASTEROID RENDEZVOUS (NEAR) SPACECRAFT;

SPACECRAFT INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 0032045304     PISSN: 02705214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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