Dynamical and compositional assessment of near-Earth object mission targets

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 351-366

  Binzel, Richard P ^a   Perozzi, Ettore ^b   Rivkin, Andrew S ^a   Rossi, Alessandro ^c   Harris, Alan W ^d   Bus, Schelte J ^e   Valsecchi, Giovanni B ^f   Slivan, Stephen M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b TELESPAZIO S P A   (Italy)

^c ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METEORITE; TAXONOMY;

EID: 2042522690     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00098.x     Document Type: Article

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