Discovery of five irregular moons of Neptune

Nature

Volumn 430, Issue 7002, 2004, Pages 865-867

  Holman, Matthew J ^a   Kavelaars, J J ^b   Grav, Tommy ^a,c   Gladman, Brett J ^d   Fraser, Wesley C ^e   Milisavilevic, Dan ^e   Nicholson, Philip D ^f   Burns, Joseph A ^f   Carruba, Valerio ^f   Petit, Jean Marc ^g   Rousselot, Philippe ^g   Mousis, Oliver ^g   Marsden, Brian G ^a   Jacobson, Robert A ^h  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^e MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^g Obervatoire de Besançon ^*  (France)

^h CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOON; ORBITS; SATELLITES;

NEPTUNE; TRITON;

PLANETS;

NEPTUNE; ORBIT DETERMINATION; SATELLITE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; GRAVITY; MOON; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

PLUTO;

EID: 4344610240     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02832     Document Type: Article

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