Keck observations of near-Earth asteroids in the thermal infrared

Icarus

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 116-130

  Delbó, Marco ^a,e   Harris, Alan W ^a   Binzel, Richard P ^b   Pravec, Petr ^c   Davies, John K ^d  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Infrared observations; Photometry; Spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345446516     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.07.002     Document Type: Article

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