Spin limits of Solar System bodies: From the small fast-rotators to 2003 EL61

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 500-509

  Holsapple, Keith A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid Ceres; Asteroids; Kuiper Belt; rotations; Trans neptunian objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847407516     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.08.012     Document Type: Article

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