The size distributions of asteroid families in the SDSS Moving Object Catalog 4

Icarus

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 138-155

  Parker, A ^a,b   Ivezić, Ž ^a   Juric M ^c   Lupton, R ^d   Sekora, M D ^e   Kowalski, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asteroids; dynamics; Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 53949114439     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.07.002     Document Type: Article

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