The surface composition of Jupiter Trojans: Visible and near-infrared survey of dynamical families

Icarus

Volumn 183, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 420-434

  Dotto, E ^a   Fornasier, S ^b   Barucci, M A ^c   Licandro, J ^d,e   Boehnhardt, H ^f   Hainaut, O ^g   Marzari, F ^b   de Bergh, C ^c   De Luise, F ^a  

^a INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES   (Spain)

^e INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^g EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Photometry; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746059394     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.02.012     Document Type: Article

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