Thermal infrared and optical observations of four near-Earth asteroids

Icarus

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 535-552

  Wolters, Stephen D ^a   Green, Simon F ^a   McBride, Neil ^a   Davies, John K ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UK ASTRONOMY TECHNOLOGY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Near Earth asteroids; Thermal infrared spectrometry and spectrophotometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949094584     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.08.011     Document Type: Article

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