Thermal inertia of near-Earth asteroids and implications for the magnitude of the Yarkovsky effect

Icarus

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 236-249

  Delbo', Marco ^a,b   dell'Oro, Aldo ^a   Harris, Alan W ^c   Mottola, Stefano ^c   Mueller, Michael ^c  

^a OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asteroids; dynamics; Infrared observations; Near Earth objects; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547824810     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.03.007     Document Type: Article

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