Rotation rates of Kuiper-belt objects from their light curves

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6723, 1999, Pages 129-132

  Romanishin, W ^a   Tegler, S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BRIGHTNESS; LIGHT; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 0033545625     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18168     Document Type: Article

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