On the detectability of lightcurves of Kuiper belt objects

Icarus

Volumn 161, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 174-180

  Lacerda, Pedro ^a   Luu, Jane ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; General; Kuiper Belt; Minor planets; Solar system

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037220768     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(02)00019-2     Document Type: Article

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