Physical characteristics of Comet Nucleus C/2001 OG108 (LONEOS)

Icarus

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 174-194

  Abell, Paul A ^a   Fernández, Yanga R ^b   Pravec, Petr ^c   French, Linda M ^d   Farnham, Tony L ^e   Gaffey, Michael J ^f   Hardersen, Paul S ^f   Kušnirák, Peter ^c   Šarounová, Lenka ^c   Sheppard, Scott S ^g   Narayan, Gautham ^d  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

^d ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Bldg 142   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^g GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comets, composition; Comets, origin; Infrared observations; Near Earth asteroids, origin; Visible observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 27744590427     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.06.012     Document Type: Article

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