The CFEPS Kuiper Belt Survey: Strategy and presurvey results

Icarus

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 508-522

  Jones, R L ^a   Gladman, B ^a   Petit, J M ^b   Rousselot, P ^b   Mousis, O ^b   Kavelaars, J J ^c   Campo Bagatin, A ^d   Bernabeu, G ^d   Benavidez, P ^d   Parker, J Wm ^e   Nicholson, P ^f   Holman, M ^g   Grav, T ^h   Doressoundiram, A ⁱ   Veillet, C ^j   Scholl, H ^k   Mars, G ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE BESANÇON   (France)

^c EPSA ^*  (Canada)

^d Ingenieria de Sistemas y Teoria de la Señal   (Spain)

^e SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^g HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^j CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

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Author keywords

Kuiper belt objects; Trans neptunian objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751342905     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.07.024     Document Type: Article

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