Images of Neptune's ring arcs obtained by a ground-based telescope

Nature

Volumn 400, Issue 6746, 1999, Pages 731-733

  Sicardy, B ^a   Roddier, F ^b   Roddier, C ^b   Perozzi, E ^a,c   Graves, J E ^b   Guyon, O ^b,d   Northcott, M J ^b  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c TELESPAZIO S P A   (Italy)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEPTUNE; PLANETARY EVOLUTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0033584323     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/23410     Document Type: Article

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