Pluto and Charon: Formation, seasons, composition

Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Volumn 30, Issue , 2002, Pages 307-345

  Brown, Michael E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Kuiper belt; Outer Solar System; Planet formation

Indexed keywords

MODELS; ORBITS; SURFACE STRUCTURE;

SEASONAL VARIABILITY;

PLANETS;

CHARON; PLANETARY EVOLUTION; PLUTO; SEASONALITY;

EID: 0036441174     PISSN: 00846597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.earth.30.090401.095213     Document Type: Article

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