The asteroid lightcurve database

Icarus

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 134-146

  Warner, Brian D ^a   Harris, Alan W ^b   Pravec, Petr ^c  

^a Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

^b Space Science Institute ^*  (United States)

^c ASTRONOMICAL INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Asteroids; Photometry; rotation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349090579     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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