Considerations on the magnitude distributions of the Kuiper belt and of the Jupiter Trojans

Icarus

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 310-315

  Morbidelli, Alessandro ^a   Levison, Harold F ^b   Bottke, William F ^b   Dones, Luke ^b   Nesvorný, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Kuiper belt; Planetary dynamics; Planetesimals; Trojan asteroids

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349098897     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.033     Document Type: Article

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