Predicting the Earth encounters of (99942) Apophis

Icarus

Volumn 193, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-19

  Giorgini, Jon D ^a   Benner, Lance A M ^a   Ostro, Steven J ^a   Nolan, Michael C ^b   Busch, Michael W ^c  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; dynamics; Near Earth objects; Orbit determination; Radar observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 36749095109     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.09.012     Document Type: Article

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