The first detection of water absorption on a D type asteroid

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2003, Pages

  Kanno, Ai ^a   Hiroi, Takahiro ^b   Nakamura, Ryosuke ^c   Abe, Masanao ^d   Ishiguro, Masateru ^d   Hasegawa, Sunao ^d   Miyasaka, Seidai ^e   Sekiguchi, Tomohiko ^f   Terada, Hiroshi ^f   Igarashi, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^e Tokyo Metropolitan Government   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; ICE; MINERALS; SOLAR SYSTEM; WATER;

SPECTRAL SIGNATURES;

GEOPHYSICS;

ABSORPTION; ASTEROID; WATER;

EID: 0346847582     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017907     Document Type: Article

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