Discovery of the triple asteroidal system 87 Sylvia

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7052, 2005, Pages 822-824

  Marchis, Franck ^a   Descamps, Pascal ^b   Hestroffer, Daniel ^b   Berthier, Jérome ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; DEBRIS; ORBITS;

ASTEROIDAL SYSTEMS; BINARY ASTEROIDS; ORBITAL INFORMATION; SPECULATIONS;

PLANETS;

ASTEROID;

ARTICLE; ASTEROID BODY; ASTRONOMY; DENSITY; MASS; POROSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

SYLVIA;

EID: 23844519347     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04018     Document Type: Article

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