Developing space weathering on the asteroid 25143 Itokawa

Nature

Volumn 443, Issue 7107, 2006, Pages 56-58

  Hiroi, Takahiro ^a   Abe, Masanao ^b   Kitazato, Kohei ^b,c   Abe, Shinsuke ^d   Clark, Beth E ^e   Sasaki, Sho ^f   Ishiguro, Masateru ^g   Barnouin Jha, Olivier S ^h  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e ITHACA COLLEGE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^g Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^h JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED RADIATION; IRON; METALLIC COMPOUNDS; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; ORBITS;

ASTEROIDS; LL5-6 CHONDRITES; SPACE WEATHERING;

METEORITES;

ASTEROID; CHONDRITE; NEAR INFRARED; VISIBLE SPECTRUM; WEATHERING;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE; SPACE FLIGHT; WEATHERING;

EID: 33748426484     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05073     Document Type: Article

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