The mass ratio of Charon to Pluto from Hubble Space Telescope astrometry with the fine guidance sensors

Icarus

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 254-259

  Olkin, C B ^a   Wasserman, L H ^a   Franz, O G ^a  

^a LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Charon; Pluto

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042704864     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00136-2     Document Type: Article

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