A survey for satellites of Venus

Icarus

Volumn 202, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-16

  Sheppard, Scott S ^a   Trujillo, Chadwick A ^b  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

general; Irregular satellites; Planetary formation; Satellites; Venus

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349148316     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.02.008     Document Type: Article

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