Vesta's UV lightcurve: Hemispheric variation in brightness and spectral reversal

Icarus

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-9

  Hendrix, Amanda R ^a   Vilas, Faith ^b   Festou, Michel C ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c OBSERVATOIRE MIDI PYRÉNÉES   (France)

Author keywords

Asteroids, Vesta; Surfaces, asteroids; Ultraviolet observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037353944     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(02)00070-2     Document Type: Review

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