Digging into the surface of the icy dwarf planet Eris

Icarus

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 520-525

  Abernathy, M R ^a   Tegler, S C ^a   Grundy, W M ^b   Licandro, J ^c   Romanishin, W ^d   Cornelison, D ^a   Vilas, F ^e  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE CANARIAS   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kuiper belt; Spectroscopy; Trans neptunian objects

Indexed keywords

EID: 58649111728     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.10.016     Document Type: Article

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