New Activity of Chiron: Results from 5 years of photometric monitoring

Icarus

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 44-51

  Duffard, René ^a   Lazzaro, Daniela ^a   Pinto, Sandro ^a   Carvano, Jorge ^a   Angeli, Claudia ^a   Alvarez Candal, Alvaro ^b   Fernández, Silvia ^c  

^a OBSERVATÓRIO NACIONAL   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Centaurs; Comets; Kuiper Belt objects; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036853932     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6938     Document Type: Article

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