From magnitudes to diameters: The albedo distribution of Near Earth Objects and the earth collision hazard

Icarus

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 329-342

  Morbidelli, A ^a   Jedicke, R ^b   Bottke, W F ^c   Michel, P ^a   Tedesco, E F ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d TerraSystems Inc Lee   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Composition; Dynamics; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036696345     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6887     Document Type: Article

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