A Visual Spectrum of Triton from the Hubble Space Telescope

Icarus

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 571-574

  Tryka, Kimberly A ^a   Bosh, Amanda S ^a  

^a LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Photometry; Satellite; Spectroscopy; Surfaces; Triton

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141780608     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6224     Document Type: Article

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