A New Observational Search for Vulcanoids in SOHO/LASCO Coronagraph Images

Icarus

Volumn 148, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 312-315

  Durda, Daniel D ^a   Stern, S Alan ^a   Colwell, William B ^a   Parker, Joel Wm ^a   Levison, Harold F ^a   Hassler, Donald M ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Image processing; Mercury

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043143037     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6520     Document Type: Article

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