Vestoid surface composition from analysis of faint absorption bands in visible reflectance spectra

Icarus

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 649-662

  Shestopalov, D I ^a   McFadden, L A ^b   Golubeva, L F ^a   Khomenko, V M ^c   Gasanova, L O ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Azerbaijan)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

^c Mineralogy and Ore Formation of NAS of Ukraine   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Asteroids; composition; Spectrophotometry; surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249086927     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.01.011     Document Type: Article

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