An abundant population of small irregular satellites around Jupiter

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6937, 2003, Pages 261-263

  Sheppard, Scott S ^a   Jewitt, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; ORBITS; SPACE RESEARCH;

CIRCUMPLANETARY ACCRETION; COLLISIONAL SHATTERING; JUPITER; SATURN;

PLANETS;

JUPITER; PLANETARY SATELLITE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VELOCITY;

EID: 0345927455     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01584     Document Type: Article

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