Evidence for two populations of classical transneptunian objects: The strong inclination dependence of classical binaries

Icarus

Volumn 194, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 758-768

  Noll, Keith S ^a   Grundy, William M ^b   Stephens, Denise C ^c   Levison, Harold F ^d   Kern, Susan D ^a  

^a STScI   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c Brigham Young University   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

general; Kuiper Belt objects; Satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 40849142133     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.10.022     Document Type: Article

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