Spectral properties and composition of potentially hazardous Asteroid (99942) Apophis

Icarus

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 480-485

  Binzel, Richard P ^a,b   Rivkin, Andrew S ^c   Thomas, Cristina A ^a   Vernazza, Pierre ^d   Burbine, Thomas H ^e   DeMeo, Francesca E ^a,f   Bus, Schelte J ^g   Tokunaga, Alan T ^g   Birlan, Mirel ^h,i  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

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

^d EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^e BATES COLLEGE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^h Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des ephemerides   (France)

ⁱ ACADEMY OF ROMANIAN SCIENTISTS   (Romania)

Author keywords

Asteroids; composition; Meteorites; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849097804     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.11.028     Document Type: Article

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