The distribution of basaltic asteroids in the Main Belt

Icarus

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 77-90

  Moskovitz, Nicholas A ^a   Jedicke, Robert ^a   Gaidos, Eric ^b   Willman, Mark ^a   Nesvorný, David ^c   Fevig, Ronald ^d   Ivezić, Željko ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroid Vesta; Asteroids; composition; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 53949103340     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.07.006     Document Type: Article

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