An overview of the LIDAR observations of asteroid 25143 Itokawa

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 187-192

  Mukai, T ^a   Abe, S ^a   Hirata, N ^e   Nakamura, R ^b   Barnouin Jha, O S ^c   Cheng, A F ^c   Mizuno, T ^d   Hiraoka, K ^a   Honda, T ^a   Demura, H ^e   Gaskell, R W ^f   Hashimoto, T ^d   Kubota, T ^d   Matsuoka, M ^g   Scheeres, D J ^h   Yoshikawa, M ^d  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

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

^d JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AIZU   (Japan)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Density; Itokawa; LIDAR; Mass

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; ORBITAL TRANSFER;

ELLIPTICAL BEAMS; ITOKAWA; ORBITAL SPANS;

ASTEROIDS;

EID: 34547099355     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.04.075     Document Type: Article

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