A thick cloud of neptune trojans and their colors

Science

Volumn 313, Issue 5786, 2006, Pages 511-514

  Sheppard, Scott S ^a   Trujillo, Chadwick A ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COLOR; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SPACE RESEARCH; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COLLISIONAL FORMATION; HIGH-INCLINATION NEPTUNE TROJAN; THICK DISK; TRIANGULAR LAGRANGIAN POINTS;

PLANETS;

ASTEROID; CLOUD; GRAVITY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NEPTUNE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COLOR; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; DYNAMICS; ENERGY; FREEZING; GRAVITY; LATITUDE; MEASUREMENT; NEPTUNE TROJAN; PLANETARY AXIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SIMULATION;

EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; MINOR PLANETS; NEPTUNE;

EID: 33746619573     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1127173     Document Type: Article

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