Reopening the TNOs color controversy: Centaurs bimodality and TNOs unimodality

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 410, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Peixinho, N ^a,b   Doressoundiram, A ^a   Delsanti, A ^a   Boehnhardt, H ^c   Barucci, M A ^a   Belskaya, I ^a,d  

^a OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^b Centro de Astronomia e Astrofisica da Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTRONOMIE   (Germany)

^d V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Kuiper Belt; Methods: Statistical

Indexed keywords

COLOR; PHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BIMODALITY;

ASTROPHYSICS;

EID: 0242364770     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20031420     Document Type: Review

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