Discovery of Earth's quasi-satellite

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1251-1255

  Connors, Martin ^a   Veillet, Christian ^b   Brasser, Ramon ^c   Wiegert, Paul ^d   Chodas, Paul ^e   Mikkola, Seppo ^f   Innanen, Kimmo ^c  

^a ATHABASCA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CANADA FRANCE HAWAII TELESCOPE   (United States)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; EARTH ROTATION; ORBIT DETERMINATION; SATELLITE;

EID: 4444249929     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2004.tb00944.x     Document Type: Article

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