A review of comet and asteroid statistics

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 51, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1155-1161

  Gehrels, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; COMET; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

NEPTUNIA;

EID: 0033509913     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03351590     Document Type: Conference Paper

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