Basic nature of sub-km main-belt asteroids: Their size and spatial distributions

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1543-1547

  Yoshida, F ^a   Nakamura, T ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; EXTRAPOLATION; OBSERVATORIES; PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEYING; TELESCOPES;

CUMULATIVE SIZE DISTRIBUTIONS; MAIN BELT ASTEROIDS (MBA); POWER-LAW DISTRIBUTIONS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

ASTEROID;

EID: 2342599135     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)00458-7     Document Type: Article

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