Compositional differences between meteorites and near-Earth asteroids

Nature

Volumn 454, Issue 7206, 2008, Pages 858-860

  Vernazza, P ^a   Binzel, R P ^b   Thomas, C A ^b   DeMeo, F E ^c   Bus, S J ^d   Rivkin, A S ^e   Tokunaga, A T ^d  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTEROID; METEORITE;

ARTICLE; ASTERIAS; ASTRONOMY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FLORA; METEOROLOGY; NATURAL SCIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 49649096855     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature07154     Document Type: Article

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