Optical colors of 56 near-Earth objects: Trends with size and orbit

Icarus

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 363-373

  Dandy, C L ^a   Fitzsimmons, A ^a   Collander Brown, S J ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Composition; Dynamics; Mineralogy; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037765471     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00087-3     Document Type: Article

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