Surface composition of Hilda asteroids from the analysis of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey colors

Icarus

Volumn 193, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 567-571

  Gil Hutton, R ^a   Brunini, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN JUAN   (Argentina)

^b CONICET ^*  (Argentina)

Author keywords

Asteroids; composition; surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 38949203788     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.08.026     Document Type: Article

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