Thermal emission spectroscopy (5.2-38 μm) of three Trojan asteroids with the Spitzer Space Telescope: Detection of fine-grained silicates

Icarus

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 496-512

  Emery, J P ^a   Cruikshank, D P ^a   Van Cleve, J ^b  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b BALL AEROSPACE AND TECHNOLOGIES CORP   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; asteroids; composition; Infrared observations; Spectroscopy; Surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747392574     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.01.011     Document Type: Article

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