Observations of Centaur 8405 absolus: Searching for water ice

Icarus

Volumn 160, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 59-65

  Romon Martin, Jennifer ^a   Barucci, Maria A ^a   de Bergh, Catherine ^a   Doressoundiram, Alain ^a   Peixinho, Nuno ^a   Poulet, François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Centaurs; Infrared observations; Spectrophotometry; Spectroscopy; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036855585     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2002.6959     Document Type: Article

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