Discovery of a binary Centaur

Icarus

Volumn 184, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 611-618

  Noll, Keith S ^a   Levison, Harold F ^b   Grundy, Will M ^c   Stephens, Denise C ^d  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Centaurs; general; Kuiper Belt; Satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748915493     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.05.010     Document Type: Article

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