Are the circular, dark features on Comet Borrelly's surface albedo variations or pits?

Icarus

Volumn 167, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-44

  Nelson, Robert M ^a   Soderblom, Laurence A ^b   Hapke, Bruce W ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Albedo; Comets; Photometry; Surface morphology; Surface processes

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642502530     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.04.002     Document Type: Article

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