Nereid: Light curve for 1999-2006 and a scenario for its variations

Icarus

Volumn 196, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 225-240

  Schaefer, Bradley E ^a   Tourtellotte, Suzanne W ^b   Rabinowitz, David L ^c   Schaefer, Martha W ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Neptune; Photometry; Rotational dynamics; satellites

Indexed keywords

EID: 44149086829     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.02.025     Document Type: Article

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