Investigating the Vesta-vestoid-HED connection

Icarus

Volumn 167, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 360-368

  Cochran, Anita L ^a   Vilas, Faith ^d   Jarvis, Kandy S ^b   Kelley, Michael S ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^c GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Composition; Spectrophotometry; Surfaces; Vesta

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842532908     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.10.007     Document Type: Article

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