Crystalline water ice on the Kuiper belt object (50000) Quaoar

Nature

Volumn 432, Issue 7018, 2004, Pages 731-733

  Jewitt, David C ^a   Luu, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; IRRADIATION; SUN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER;

CRYSTALLINE WATER ICE; ENERGETIC PARTICLES; PARTICLE IRRADIATION; SURFACE TEMPERATURE;

ICE;

AMMONIA; ICE; WATER;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL MATTER; ICE; VOLCANISM;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CRYSTAL; ENERGY; EXPOSURE; HEATING; INFRARED RADIATION; IRRADIATION; PARTICLE RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

AMMONIA; CRYSTALLIZATION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; SOLAR SYSTEM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 10644242567     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03111     Document Type: Article

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