Two distinct populations Kuiper-belt objects

Nature

Volumn 392, Issue 6671, 1998, Pages 49-51

  Tegler, S C ^a   Romanishin, W ^b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COLOR; IMAGE PROCESSING; PHOTOMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EID: 0032485531     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/32108     Document Type: Article

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