Physical survey of 24 Centaurs with visible photometry

Icarus

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 195-211

  Bauer, James M ^a   Meech, Karen J ^a   Fernández, Yanga R ^a   Pittichova, Jana ^a   Hainaut, Olivier R ^b   Boehnhardt, Hermann ^b   Delsanti, Audrey C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Germany)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Kuiper belt objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345446499     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.07.004     Document Type: Article

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