The colors of cometary nuclei-Comparison with other primitive bodies of the Solar System and implications for their origin

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 674-713

  Lamy, P ^a   Toth, I ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b KONKOLY OBSERVATORY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Centaurs; Kuiper belt; Trans neptunian objects; Trojan asteroids

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349173198     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.01.030     Document Type: Article

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